How IVF Can be Morally Right

The Gospel Coalition ^ | Apr 2019 | Wayne Grudem

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In vitro fertilization is the process of joining a woman’s egg (ovum) and a husband’s sperm in a lab rather than inside a woman’s body... When the egg is fertilized by the sperm, the result is a living embryo, which is then implanted in the woman’s womb so that it can develop like any other baby.

Evangelical Christians differ on the moral acceptability of this procedure.

My own position is that, in principle, the teachings of Scripture present no moral objection to a married couple using IVF (as long as no human embryos are destroyed in the process), because it is simply enabling an infertile husband and wife to overcome their infertility and thereby experience the blessing of having children.

(I won’t address the morality of several related issues such as adoption, surrogate motherhood, embryo adoption, and the possibility of human cloning, but I’ve discussed them at length elsewhere.)

1. Overcoming Infertility Is Pleasing to God
2. Modern Medicine in General Is a Divine Blessing That’s Morally Good
3. We Should Treat an Unborn Child as a Human Person from the Moment of Conception
4. Children Should Only Be Conceived by and Born to a Married Man and Woman

Therefore IVF Is a Morally Good Action in Some Circumstances The previous four points lead me to conclude that, if IVF is used by a married couple, and if care is taken to prevent the intentional destruction of embryos, then it is a morally good action that pleases God because it violates no scriptural guidelines, achieves the moral good of overcoming infertility, and brings the blessing of children to yet another family. “He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!” (Ps. 113:9).

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That’s true. Most are in a crisis situation and just need assistance for a short time.
While domestic infant adoption often costs 10s of thousands of dollars. Just think, what if that money were directed instead to assist a mom through her crisis.