Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday that expands access to IVF. Some people are celebrating this, but IVF isn’t pro-life. The IVF industry is more deadly than the abortion industry.
IVF (in vitro fertilization) has become a popular option for couples struggling with infertility. It’s a procedure that unites a sperm and an egg for conception in a Petri dish. It typically produces between 5 to 10 embryos per treatment. So for every embryo implanted through IVF, there are up to 10 embryos that are murdered or frozen indefinitely.
Therefore, IVF kills twice as many babies as abortion. There are a million babies aborted every year, but IVF kills almost 2 million babies a year.
Some Christians say there are ethical ways to use IVF. They say couples can prevent these murders by freezing the embryos to implant them at a later date. But that is a disturbing argument. Freezing embryos to preserve their life is better than killing them, but that doesn’t mean it’s ethical.
We should expect that kind of argument from pro-abortion people, not Christians. Embryos are not just clumps of cells. They are not disposable items to freeze in containers for use at a later date. They are persons with souls. They are just as human and precious as my 15-month-old and 7-week-old sons.
If it were possible to freeze toddlers and newborns in a tube without killing them, would it be ethical to do it? If a couple did that, we would say they have abandoned their children, right? We would say they’ve made their children motherless, fatherless, and uncared for, right?
Isn’t that what couples do when they freeze their embryos? If you agree that pre-born children are just as human and deserving of the same human rights that every person has, why are we treating them differently? If it’s not okay to abandon a newborn, why is it okay to abandon a preborn?
Preborn children have a right to develop, unimpeded, in a safe and loving environment in the womb. They belong in the womb, not a freezing tube.
Also, since the success rate for implantation is only 55% for women under 35 years old (and increasingly lower for older women), Christians who participate in IVF are taking part in a procedure that inherently risks the lives of little children.
For every baby born through IVF, 20 more are killed through it. Brothers and sisters, is it worth killing or neglecting 20 of our children to have one biological child?
IVF isn’t a selfless and loving way to have children. Instead of spending around 20,000 dollars on IVF, consider using that money for adoption.
IVF is one of the reasons why adoption rates are declining. This is depressing because IVF makes many children fatherless and motherless, but adoption gives fatherless and motherless children parents. Since God adopted us into his family, Christians should consider doing the same.
We should especially consider embryo adoption. Because of IVF, there are currently up to 1.5 million frozen embryos in America. That is 4 times the number of children in the foster care system. In Canada, there are around 100,000 frozen embryos, which is double the number of children in the foster care system.
Christians should be rescuing these children instead of adding to them. We shouldn’t use IVF.
I know that doesn’t ease the pain of infertility. I know IVF is tempting for Christian couples who have prayed and waited for years to have children. But God says we shouldn’t sin so that grace would abound. The ends do not justify the means. IVF isn’t the righteous solution to infertility.
That, however, doesn’t make babies born through IVF an inferior blessing from God. Children born through IVF are made by their creator, not their doctor. Therefore, they are just as fearfully and wonderfully made as everyone else.
But Christians shouldn’t participate in unethical procedures to receive God’s blessing in children. Christians shouldn’t use IVF.