{"id":33501,"date":"2025-02-20T18:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=33501"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:21:45","slug":"the-most-pro-family-thing-trump-can-do-is-ditch-his-support-for-child-commodifying-ivf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/the-most-pro-family-thing-trump-can-do-is-ditch-his-support-for-child-commodifying-ivf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Pro-Family Thing Trump Can Do Is Ditch His Support For Child-Commodifying IVF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Jordan Boyd, originally published February 19, 2025, The Federalist<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moral pitfalls posed by IVF are not synonymous with the thriving and fruitful family-friendly society the Trump administration desires.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump signed an executive order<\/a> on Tuesday directing his administration to preserve Big Fertility\u2019s increasing stream of customers by making it easier and more affordable for Americans to buy in vitro fertilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House immediately championed the order as a win for American families and the nation\u2019s lagging fertility rate. An official administration fact sheet claimed<\/a> the directive \u201crecognizes the importance of family formation\u201d and \u201cmake[s] it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The administration intends to execute its family-friendly agenda by doing everything possible to \u201cprotect IVF access\u201d and \u201caggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments.\u201d There\u2019s nothing pro-family, however, about endorsing a practice that kills more unborn babies than abortion every year.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fertility Fallacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s pledge to \u201cexpand IVF\u201d is already ironic considering there are no laws abridging the increasingly popular fertility fix in the United States. Even states like Louisiana, whose law purporting to prohibit the intentional destruction of embryos is often used as an example by lawmakers of \u201ccommon-sense\u201d restrictions<\/a> on ART, have plenty of loopholes that still accommodate for the unlimited creation and destruction of human life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it\u2019s true that tens of thousands of precious babies are born via the procedure each and every year, approximately 93<\/a> to 97<\/a> percent of the little lives created in labs via IVF won\u2019t ever make it to the womb and certainly not birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s order might bring the administration one step closer to fulfilling his campaign promise for taxpayer-funded IVF<\/a>, but it does not actually solve the nation\u2019s fertility woes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one, IVF is far from a foolproof way<\/a> to ensure parenthood. Cycling emotionally vulnerable adults who desperately want a child through multiple rounds of IVF, however, is incredibly profitable for the rapidly growing fertility industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no doubt that an infertility diagnosis, as the White House notes, turns \u201cwhat should be a joyful experience into an emotional and financial struggle.\u201d Lowering the cost of egg retrievals, reproduction drugs, and lab conception in light of that fact may seem noble at first glance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the only thing the IVF sold to the masses can guarantee is that more innocent embryos will be subject to morally objectionable practices like genetic testing<\/a>, premature disposal<\/a>, indefinite cryopreservation<\/a>, and surrogacy<\/a> than the millions that already were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Trump is truly invested in promoting \u201cfamily formation\u201d and even pushing more people to reproduce beyond the replacement rate, further opening the door for children for whoever by whatever means necessary won\u2019t do the trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nuclear family is indispensable, and the consequences of shunning it by allowing anyone, regardless of relationship status or natural ability to reproduce, to commission the creation of children via IVF are irrevocable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kids who grow up without their married, biological mother and father have clear physical, emotional, and educational disadvantages<\/a> that do not systematically affect their peers in stable nuclear family situations. More specifically, boys raised in fatherless homes like the ones IVF enables<\/a> are less likely to graduate and more prone to criminal acts and violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if the only people employing the use of IVF were couples in traditional marriages, the moral and ethical crises posed by the industry\u2019s standard practice of serially creating and destroying embryos are not synonymous with a healthy, thriving, and fruitful society. The results are the expansion of an industry that prioritizes profit over people<\/a>, adults\u2019 selfish desires<\/a> over children\u2019s natural rights, quick fixes<\/a> over long-term women\u2019s health solutions, desirable traits above all<\/a>, forced orphanhood<\/a>, the erasure of women<\/a> in reproduction, fertility fraud<\/a>, and making human existence transactional<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embracing the Wild West vs. Forging a New Frontier<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Time and time again, Trump has proven himself to be the most pro-life president in U.S. history.<\/a> <\/strong>In recent weeks, his administration has also made headlines for being refreshingly child-focused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love seeing genuine little interactions like this. They are very humanizing.

Vice President JD Vance is clearly a very loving father, it's why he values family so much! pic.twitter.com\/D4yAYHSOw7<\/a><\/p>— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) January 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>