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Are IVF and surrogacy ethically and morally neutral practices?

September 9, 2013 by Faye Sonier 2 Comments

I don’t believe they are and I plan on studying and learning more about genetic and reproductive technologies over the next year. For now, I’ll leave you with this link to a Christianity Today article. While its focus is on the evangelical church, I think it does contain some general food for thought. I think a robust discussion of these issues needs to take place within the broader pro-life community.

With the Center for Bioethics and Culture, I’m currently working on a documentary about surrogacy, and in our interviews I have sadly heard firsthand stories of the complications of this process—even when everyone starts off with the best of intentions. One surrogate was asked to have an abortion because the child she was carrying had a genetic defect. Another surrogate’s own children were heartbroken that their mother gave away the baby. A woman who served as a surrogate for her brother and his partner is still battling over custody of the now school-aged children. Even Elton John, who celebrated the birth of his children with the help of an egg donor and a surrogate, admits that it is heartbreaking that his children will grow up without a mother.

In response to assisted reproductive technologies and procedures, an uneven patchwork of policies and laws in the U.S. attempt to protect intended parents rather than surrogates or the children they carry. Legislative debates frequently take place with no larger sense of the gravity of this practice or how it might harm families and society.

For example, this year in Louisiana a state senator introduced a law that would allow surrogacy contracts for heterosexual couples. The legislator, who had gone to another state in order to contract with a surrogate to have children, described surrogacy as baking a loaf of bread in an oven, a comparison that—as I’ve mentioned before—belittles the very real issues involved. As human beings created in the image of God, women are not ovens, nor are their bodies simply vessels to be used, sold, rented, or loaned.

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  1. Anon says

    September 10, 2013 at 8:51 am

    I definitely struggle with some of the implications that IVF and surrogacy entail. I’m not sure that either are intrinsically immoral, but I wish we all could agree that purposely creating someone only to remove him or her from his or her biological family is immoral.

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  2. surrogacy clinic India says

    October 23, 2013 at 2:12 am

    Different countries have different laws for surrogacy. In India, the success rate of surrogacy is growing high.

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