IVF (In Vitro Fertilization)

The intention of bringing children into one’s life is understandable, but it presents moral, ethical and real tragedies.

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The IVF industry treats human beings like products and expands destruction of human life, or forces others to subsidize the cost. In vitro fertilization denies the humanity of the preborn at conception. It turns human life into a commodity to be bought and sold. (46 states have ruled that an embryo is property)

Even though IVF can help create new life, there are multiple factors that make it contrary to God’s plan for marriage and children, therefore rendering it morally wrong. it often includes the death or freezing of embryonic children. And although preserving embryos by freezing them does not kill them, it could be compared to placing innocent children in prison. Creating embryonic children to be frozen and participating in their deaths are both profound violations of their dignity. As another example of why IVF is wrong, it also often includes immoral behavior by the man to obtain sperm.

Additionally, every human being is a gift made in God’s image with infinite dignity, so people should not be treated like objects or property. No matter how sincerely the children are loved and wanted, the process still treats them like products that can be bought and ordered. And in cases where a third party’s eggs or sperm are used, or where a woman acts as a gestational surrogate and carries the child, these people are also treated like property in a transaction and as means to an end, rather than as people to be respected.