President Donald Trump
claim He is the “most life support president” in American history. But is it he?
Trump this week
Signed a new executive order Protecting and promoting vitro fertilization. In fact, EO has little immediate meaning. EO recognizes the “importance of family formation” and acknowledges that American public policy must make it easier for mothers and fathers to have children, but EO “provides IVF access.” We also request policy recommendations for protecting.
The goal of “protecting IVF access” poses an important issue. From who exactly?
In a society that is fighting growing problems of infertility and lower birth rates, it makes sense that IVF is praised as a technical achievement. So why should we not use technology to help people who struggle to conceive their children naturally? After all, we use technology to solve other biological problems, and in theory, IVF provides solutions to infertility and fights lower birth rates.
So who opposes the IVF? Pro-life Christians – and for good reason.
Digging under the surface discovers important ethical, moral and social issues of IVF. Unfortunately, these issues are not immediately clear. But nonetheless, they are issues and cannot be ignored or addressed.
Not all of the reasons why Prolife Christians oppose IVF and why everyone should critically weigh the meaning of IVF for themselves, their families, and our society.
1. IVF destroys embryos.
Pro-life Christians believe that life begins with conception. This is the main motivation to oppose abortion. It kills a sinless life, although fetus, which is made in the image of God, possesses inherent value and dignity.
Similarly, IVF kills the fetus.
The IVF process most often involves the artificial creation of multiple embryos, but not all of them are embedded in the female uterus. This is done to maximize the probability of successful implantation. However, in most cases, it causes great problems as many embryos – – staying alive beyond the stage of conception – are “left behind”. What remains is treated like property: frozen (when?) for future use or worse, destroyed or exposed to scientific research.
The truth is that most embryos created through IVF are not “used.” In other words,
According to some estimatesmore fetal life is erased through IVF than being killed in abortion.
This is a serious injustice.
Worse, IVF is often implanted during the IVF process to maximize the chances of a successful pregnancy, so IVF is a medical community that has “reduced multiple pregnancy pregnancy” or “reduced selective fetals.” It could lead to what you call. In other words, abortion.
2. IVF commodifies human life.
There's no way around that. IVF commodifies human life. It changes kids
product – What to buy and manage, And even the design.
IVF treats women as egg donors and men as sperm donors, reducing the creation of life to market trade. In this system, life is valued on its usefulness and reinforces a consumer-driven mindset that inherently undermines the God-given dignity of human life. This trading attitude shapes how society views children – not as a gift, but as a product. In the case of “designer babies,” parents even get the privilege of “shop” over the genetic traits they most want.
Ultimately, commodification of human life reinforces the idea that people have rights to children, as if they were products that are bought and sold, rather than blessings given by God.
3. IVF idolizes technology.
In addition to turning children into products, IVF raises technology into a secular pantheon of gods, entrusting science to reject nature and satisfying human desires.
The IVF attempts to take away the creator God, create life, give it to the science lab, use human ingenuity and technology to disable natural restrictions and manufacture products. Treat barren uterus as another problem that can be solved if the right technique is discovered.
Like the problem, the IVF creates technical idolatry that deceives us by believing that if we can do something about a biological “problem” we should. Technology therefore becomes a pseudo-slaves who give people what they are hoping for, but in return they demand ethical and moral sacrifices.
In the IVF cult, doctors are high priests, labs are sacred temples, and embryologists are gatekeepers of life.
Ultimately, the promotion of technology to God's status deceives us to commit the same sin as our ancestors in the garden of Eden. We believe in lies, seize the opportunity to become like God, and decide who should live and die based on our own reasoning rather than relying on God and lifelong wisdom.
But despite its promise, technology does not offer anything only God can do.
4. IVF violates God's plan for family and parenting.
God created men and women, and created marriages. God declared that one man and one woman should be “one” and that by their unity they should hang on.
The obvious problem with IVF is the subversion of the process in which reproduction occurs naturally. IVF divorces the concept from intimate, divinely dependent marital acts that he designed as a sacred means of creating a new life. IVF treats children as designed products rather than God's gifts or bear fruit from loving marriage.
But God is the man who opens and closes the womb (Genesis 30:22; 1 Samuel 1:5). We should trust through his sovereignty plan, not through his partnership with his life partner, how to create his life and what we think we should take. .
5. IVF ignores children who need adoption.
estimate
show Over 400,000 children are raised in the United States, and over 100,000 children are waiting to be adopted in the United States.
IVF emphasizes biological child engineering in a timeline tailored to the needs of parents, so IVF ignores all these children who already exist and need a beloved parent and a safe home.
IVF not only deprives children of the opportunity to find a loving, safe and raised home simply because some couples demand “my” children, but also reflects God's redeeming love and gospel We can place an opportunity to do so.
6. IVF exploits women through surrogacy.
The emergence of IVF has created a new industry that humanity has never known before: surrogacy.
Without IVF, surrogacy would not occur. However, surrogacy is problematic as it commercializes and misuses both surrogate and children. Through surrogacy, women deliver school-going rents and children to mere products.
Like depersonalization, surrogacy ignores the biological connections that develop between the mother and the fetus, and mercilessly ignores the physical, emotional and hormonal connections between the newborn child and the surrogate mother. Masu. The negative long-term impact on the disruption of natural bonds between mothers and children remains unknown, but it can be deeply traumatic for both.
Remember that women who agree to become agents will require financial compensation on the other side of their birth, so they are likely to do so simply. Thus, surrogacy is deeply exploitative.
7. IVF ignores the root issues of infertility.
IVF overlooks and completely ignores the root cause of infertility. Like band-aids, it covers the underlying causes of infertility: age, stress, bad diet, hormonal imbalances, metabolic diseases, etc.
The truth is that a number of emotional, environmental and lifestyle factors can contribute to infertility, most of which can be addressed and reversed. However, IVF offers quick fixes and further masks subsurface issues. It's better to understand
why Someone has experienced a fertility problem and is using a holistic approach to find a solution.
Therefore, IVF is inconsistent with Make America Healthy Again Movement.
Maha asks questions, tries to discover root issues and provides an overall solution to health problems, but IVF uses a cookie cutter approach to infertility, enriching big pharmaceuticals along the way .
8. IVF burns great fertility and a twisted incentive for large pharmaceuticals.
Speaking of Big Pharma, IVF is an industry with evil incentives that feed the sadness of loving couples struggling to get pregnant.
In my own life, my wife and I struggled for several years to start a family. We sought medical advice and were told by our local “fertility clinic” that our “only hope” for having a child is IVF. Less than a month after the board-certified fertility specialist said this, I naturally thought of my son, born last year.
I have never received counseling on moral and ethical questions from the IVF. We never counseled about the physical and emotional outcomes of IVF. There was no mention of the experimental nature of science, drug harm, and the potential complications of IVF pregnancy. If I did IVF, I was not told that I would later find myself in a moral dilemma surrounding “unused” embryos.
No informed consent was found anywhere, and I don't think our experience is unusual.
My wife isn't “infertile,” but the doctor diagnosed her as such and defended the diagnosis
While my wife is pregnant. Again, I think many women have been diagnosed with infertility if they are not actually infertile.
If this is true, it raises the question: why? Perhaps Charlie Munger can answer that. “Show us your incentives, we'll show you the results,” he is famous for once said.
The major incentives in the IVF industry are:
actually Help women, but use them to make a profit. IVFs are very expensive, often at the expense of couples over $10,000 to $30,000 per cycle. And it's easier for a fertility clinic to provide couples with what they want through artificial means than helping them get pregnant naturally.
Meanwhile, profits from IVF Mills, Big Pharma and Big Medicine Rake.
Where do you go from here?
It's important to be clear. The opposite IVF does not judge any form or form of children born through IVF.
Every child, whether pregnant naturally or through artificial means, is made with the image of God, infinitely precious, and is unique to all others. It has value and dignity. The process of a person becoming pregnant talks nothing about their own worth. After all, God takes what man means for evil and uses it for good (Genesis 50:20).
However, pro-life Christians cannot sit in their hands. They must oppose the IVF and Trump order and support education for those who don't know many of the issues with the IVF.
It is true that Trump's EO is almost symbolic. However, it remains a signal that his administration is willing to make a dark compromise on his pro-life promise to prioritize this ethical and morally compromised process that dehumanizes everyone involved. You cannot be silent.
