>>>Is she willing to have 70 children? Chances are slim. So what she’s saying is that she’s willing to kill 69 children for her convenience.>>>
Finally, someone makes sense.
There's nothing inherently, intrinsically wrong with extracting and freezing egg cells
per se, since there are imaginable good reasons for dosing so (e.g. detecting mitochondrial disease in the woman.) But it really is objectionable to freeze them for the purpose of using them later, and here's why:
- hyper-ovulation and egg extraction presents significant medical risks to the woman, and should be done only for grave reasons, that is, not just for her life-planning convenience.
- When used for IVF, all the major moral objections kick in:
- They'll fertilize more than they implant, weeding out any ones they judge substandard with Pre-Implantation Diagnosis, = abortion
- they'll implant more than you want (unless you want babies in multiples of 3!) and then do a Fetal Reduction, = abortion
- With $50,000+ behind this, you'll have a carefully-monitored pregnancy, and be highly motivated to abort at the sign of any slight anomaly (who wants to spend $50,000 to get a cripple?), and Product Quality Control =abortion.
After you give birth, this baby has a strong tendency to be seen, NOT as "a gift of God to be gratefully received and unconditionally loved, come what may." but rather, as
"Something That's Supposed To Make Me Happy" If Little Sophia or Baby Aiden is insufficiently cute, insufficiently smart, or fails to satisfy in some way, the parent is very likely to feel cheated, even angry.
I read a number of years ago (when visiting my brother in Howard County, MD), that Howard County, MD, one of the highest-income and highest-education counties in the USA, also had one of the highest rates of child abuse. Why? The parents were far more likely than average to have their hearts set on planned, perfect, privileged lives. When the kid doesn't turn out, (despite the meticulous, hyper-controlling planning), to be perfect, the kid tends to bear the brunt of bitter parental disappointment. I'm talking about emotional abandonment, verbal abuse, and even physical abuse.
IVF: A GOOD IDEA?
No.
Not even close.