IVF: just part of the fertility industry

What about the kids who don't make it through the process?

Children are a gift. Tragically, IVF turns them into a product to be created, sold and discarded, writes Lila Rose, adding that a new satirical video is casting light on the dark and deadly reality of the fertility industry. See it here.

Rose gives a graphic account of the typical in vitro fertilization process that should make all but the most brazen person/couple think again about what length they will go to in order to attempt to have a baby:

How does IVF work?

First, multiple eggs are fertilized. These new human beings are ranked based on arbitrary criteria and only the “best” are chosen.

The rest of these babies will be destroyed, stored in a deep freeze indefinitely, or sent to a lab for experimentation purposes.

After this eugenic selection, multiple babies are implanted into a womb, either the egg donor’s or a surrogate’s.

IVF can result in triples, quadruplets, or in one case, octuplets implanting. “Selective Reduction” (abortion) is then used to reach the desired number of babies. 

In many cases, surrogate mothers have been legally required to abort the babies they are carrying because the parents decided they didn’t want the child after all.

These mothers are treated as rented wombs ‒ mere equipment used to grow a product. 

In the U.S., an estimated 1 million human lives are frozen, some for as long as 25 years. Many are abandoned by their parents. 

Others are donated to science — used in genetic engineering, stem cell research, and drug experimentation.

Eugenics, "selective reduction", surrogacy, forced abortion and the commoditization of human life are pillars of the fertility industry.

This issue is another of those matters of ethical or moral decision-making where we have to look beyond the declaration "We can do it! Put your money down here!" to the more thoughtful "Should we enter into this kind of process?"

Even though the resulting outcome is to not have a child of one's own, there is the ethical path of fostering and adopting a child in need of parents. Fortunately, the love the infertile couple wish to share can be transferred to that child in need of care.

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