{"id":35336,"date":"2025-11-17T20:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=35336"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:46:54","slug":"babies-made-to-order-the-new-york-times-sounds-the-reproductive-technology-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/babies-made-to-order-the-new-york-times-sounds-the-reproductive-technology-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies, Made to Order:  The New York Times Sounds the Reproductive Technology Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>By:  Glenn T. Stanton, originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2025\/11\/99415\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=babies-made-to-order-the-new-york-times-sounds-the-reproductive-technology-alarm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">November 9, 2025, Public Discourse<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:26px\"><strong>If Siddiqui&#8217;s new moral imperative for artificial, disembodied procreation to ensure perfectly healthy babies becomes the norm, have we not lost something truly beautiful and human, the link between physical sexual communion and procreation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><em>Editors\u2019 Note: This essay is the third and final in a three-part&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/category\/parenthood-and-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series on the challenges of Western parenting<\/a>. This essay poses the question: what will family formation look like in a world where optimizing our children\u2019s genetic makeup becomes a moral imperative?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In his\u00a0\u201cInteresting Times\u201d podcast earlier this year,\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0columnist Ross Douthat gave his audience a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/07\/opinion\/genetics-children-noor-siddiqui.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">profound<\/a>\u00a0opportunity to see where in vitro reproductive technology is leading us, and wondered aloud whether it might replace natural, marital procreation. His guest was Silicon Valley entrepreneur Noor Siddiqui, who was a Thiel Fellow at age seventeen. She articulated a moral imperative for that displacement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Shortly after the interview, social media erupted into heated debates about the ethics of IVF. Though that has mostly died down, Douthat\u2019s interview with Siddiqui is worth revisiting, as it sheds light on a darker side of America\u2019s fertility crisis: our desire to optimize, shape, mold, and control how we bring life into the world and what kind of life we create, \u2026 and to discard those who don\u2019t fit our vision of what kind of life is worthy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Noor Siddiqui is the founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orchidhealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Orchid<\/a>, a genetic testing company that \u201cgives parents the power to protect their children before pregnancy begins,\u201d by isolating potential monogenic diseases (from mutations of a single gene) and polygenic diseases (combined results from multiple genes) that in effect promise a perfectly healthy child for life, which is neither realistic nor human. In fact, the opening banner on the firm\u2019s website touts its mission, which reads as a mandate: \u201cHave healthy babies.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The moral imperative is clear: create your children in a laboratory\u2019s petri dish, and have each screened by Orchid, which can sequence over 99 percent of the child\u2019s DNA. You then receive a complete genome report on each embryo of any illness, birth defect, disease, neurodevelopmental disorder, adult- or pediatric-onset cancer marker, etc., that is likely to develop at any stage of your chosen child\u2019s life, all delivered to your smart phone. The price tag: $2,500 per embryo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But of course, you must create enough embryos to give you a sporting chance of obtaining a perfect option. Siddiqui and her husband harvested twenty of her own eggs, creating sixteen embryos in order to have the four children (two boys and two girls, she says!) she and her husband desire over the coming years. As far as they know, they have no fertility issues. Siddiqui expresses a firm moral obligation to protect her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in this way because her mother developed a rare degenerative eye condition that ultimately rendered her blind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In her interview with Douthat, Siddiqui praises the American virtue of choice, saying each woman who desires to become pregnant can do so through the \u201cold-fashioned\u201d way or via technology. \u201cI think this should be about parental choice, parental freedom, and parental autonomy.\u201d She adds, in classic progressive parlance, \u201cI think the bottom line is that we shouldn\u2019t be shoving our moral beliefs on other people.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">However, that is precisely what she does as she continues\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YAJMnZ8QkmY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her interview<\/a>\u00a0with Douthat. He challenges her point that gene selection has become a moral imperative. Douthat says:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Just to go back to the example you talked about, with your mother and her illness: In the world you\u2019re describing, your mother would exist as an embryo. Not your mother as an adult human being, your mother as an embryo. And someone running an Orchid-style program would look at that embryo and say: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to implant that embryo.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He adds, \u201cYou are running a business and you are saying it would be good to live in a society where the embryo that became my mother was assessed and ruled out of bounds.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Siddiqui confesses, in response:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sure. I think that the question of an embryo that is going to get adult-onset blindness, what do I think about that embryo? My mom doesn\u2019t want to be blind. She doesn\u2019t want me to be blind. She doesn\u2019t want her grandkids to be blind. So I think that it is a positive moral choice, it is the responsible decision as a parent, to detect that risk at the earliest possible stage and to transfer the embryo that has the best probability of a healthy life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Siddiqui has no qualms about telling us what her grandmother and mother\u2019s proper moral choice would have been.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She then praises the prospect, thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/10\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-actions-to-lower-costs-and-expand-access-to-in-vitro-fertilization-ivf-and-high-quality-fertility-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a directive<\/a>\u00a0from President Trump, that \u201cIVF itself is something that is going to hopefully be covered for everyone.\u201d She adds, \u201cIn addition to that, hopefully we\u2019ll be able to get access to screening technologies like Orchid.\u201d She is not shy about saying she wants her product fully funded too. \u201cI think it\u2019s something that in the very near future hopefully we\u2019ll be able to mobilize enough excitement around so that it\u2019s something that\u2019s going to be covered for everyone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Then, this is where nobody would ever expect a&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;writer to go, exactly where any good Christian ethicist&nbsp;<em>should<\/em>&nbsp;go. Douthat: \u201cYou are excited about a world in which lots and lots more babies than is the case right now are born from laboratory fertilization.\u201d Given that, he asks Siddiqui the profound question: If her new moral imperative for artificial, disembodied procreation to ensure perfectly healthy babies becomes the norm, have we not lost something truly beautiful and human, the link between physical sexual communion and procreation?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Douthat then claims \u201cpodcaster\u2019s privilege\u201d and introduces a section of a poem by Galway Kinnell entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AVmDPl4ydQ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">After Making Love We Hear Footsteps:<\/a>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>In the half darkness we look at each other<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>and smile<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>and touch arms across this little, startlingly muscled body \u2014<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>this blessing love gives again into our arms.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Douthat, a father himself, gets emotional as he reads these last words, realizing the power and beauty of what Kinnell is describing. He apologizes for the vulnerability, then asks Siddiqui, \u201cDo you worry about removing or diminishing from human experience that aspect of being a husband and a wife, in a relationship, with a child?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It is indeed a profound humanistic question. Remarkably, the incredibly well-educated woman responds blankly, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?si=JMxP_R2esHOE6e0e&amp;t=3615&amp;v=YAJMnZ8QkmY&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What do you mean<\/a>?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">How can she&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>know what he means? He is describing one of the most universal, beautiful truths of human experience. In the ideal, it is the mystery that brought each of us into the world. But her technological worldview has blinded her to the beauty the poet is describing. Sadly, those who listen to the false promise of technology\u2019s siren song will also, in time, find themselves blind to the ineffable beauty. And we will all be much poorer for the loss.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But this blindness gives Douthat the opportunity to shine a light. He says directly:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I mean, in a future where Orchid technology becomes the norm, the feeling that poet is expressing, where a man and a woman make love, and by making love they bring a new life into the world that they haven\u2019t sculpted or engineered in any way, that is given to them out of the self-giving from each other, that forms this profound connection between sex, the way you love your partner, and the family that you brought into being.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the new moral imperative, created by technology\u2019s bold promise of ever-healthy babies guaranteed free from all maladies, great and small, Douthat asks, \u201cI\u2019m wondering if you think anything would actually be lost if that goes away?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He adds, \u201cIf 90 percent of babies are born through IVF, and having sex and having a baby out of that becomes this weird thing that the Amish do, aren\u2019t you pushing some really intimate and important aspect of human experience out of human experience?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Siddiqui flippantly answers with a quip she has clearly used in marketing pitches many times over: \u201cSex is for fun; Orchid and embryo screening is for babies.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Douthat then admits, \u201cYes, I didn\u2019t want to quote that to you because I thought it was so ridiculous.\u201d He is exactly right, because it is so anti-human. We all know sex is so much more than just \u201cfun.\u201d But fertility technology turns this fruitful love into another commodity to be customized. In Siddiqui\u2019s world, children are not a gift to be received with wonder and curiosity, but another product to be optimized in order to fulfill adult wishes. We have Amazon for that. We don\u2019t need to subvert human reproduction in the same manner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Siddiqui must know she has been challenged by a more honest and true view of human procreation, so she doubles down and becomes morally manipulative. The very thing she just warned us we should never do to one another.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It\u2019s just that I think that the vast majority of parents in the future are not going to want to roll the dice with their child\u2019s health. They\u2019re going to see it as taking the maximum amount of care, the maximum amount of love, in the same way that they plan nursery, plan their home, plan their preschool. All these decisions are actually extremely insignificant in terms of the difference between whether your child is going to live with pediatric cancer, with a heart defect that we can\u2019t surgically fix, or born without a skull and never going to be able to make it to their first birthday.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Feeling as if she must soften her landing, though, she offers more happy marketing talk. \u201cI think it\u2019s their personal choice, and I think freedom and choice is what makes America a great place to live and to be.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Douthat, realizing his listeners had just gotten an all too chilling picture of where fee-based technologized disembodied procreation is taking us, thanked his guest for joining him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>Glenn T. Stanton is the director of global family formation studies at Focus on the Family and a regular contributor to World Opinions and The Federalist.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Glenn T. Stanton, originally published November 9, 2025, Public Discourse If Siddiqui&#8217;s new moral imperative for artificial, disembodied procreation to ensure perfectly healthy babies becomes the norm, have we not lost something truly beautiful and human, the link between physical sexual communion and procreation? 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