Posted on 05/16/2024 7:43:35 AM PDT by Morgana
The fertility industry has opened new doors for countless would-be parents across the globe, and it’s not just doors allowing them to have children. Thanks to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), people can create their children and then have them tested to ensure they meet all the right specifications. While this brave new world sounds like something out of a science fiction novel, it’s all too real – and using IVF to select the kind of child you want is becoming more and more common.
In 2021, socialite and reality television alum Paris Hilton announced her plans to use IVF to create her family, and choosing the sex of her babies was one of the reasons. “Well, we have been doing the IVF. So I can pick twins if I like. Kim [Kardashian] is actually the one who told me about that, I didn’t even know anything about it. And I’m happy she told me that advice, and introduced me to her doctor, so yeah. We have them all ready to go,” she said, continuing, “I think it’s just something most women should do, just to have. And then you can pick if you want boys or girls — just because I really want to have twins that are a boy and a girl. The only way to 100% get that is by making it happen that way.”
Hilton is hardly alone. The number of people foregoing sex in favor of IVF in order to have children is growing — as is sex selection. Though, according to the Daily Mail, sex selection is illegal in most of the globe, it isn’t in the United States, and it’s become trendy.
“The market is the size of the human race,” Jeffrey Steinberg, founder of the Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles, said in an interview with Slate. He claimed 85% of his clients are drawn in by the idea of choosing their baby’s sex.
Sex selection has long been practiced, albeit not using IVF; instead, parents sometimes found out the sex of their baby during an ultrasound, and if it was the “wrong” sex, they sought an abortion. Though this has typically been a way to bolster a cultural preference for boys, Slate pointed out that in the United States, it’s become the opposite: the market is skewed toward girls.
Sharon Moayeri, the founder of OC Fertility in Newport Beach, California, does not market the ability to choose the baby’s sex as aggressively as Steinberg does, and therefore, said only around 15% of her clients arrive without fertility issues. Another doctor at the medical center at the University of California San Francisco told Slate that “single mothers by choice, same-sex couples, and families with a history of autism” were typically more likely to request girls. A study also found that white parents having their first child chose female embryos 70% of the time.
“When I think about having a child that’s a boy, it’s almost a repulsion, like, Oh my God, no,” one woman said.
Another argued, “Boy children tend to be less caring towards their parents. It doesn’t really matter if it’s socialized or biological. It’s probably socialized, but I can’t change all of society.”
And because laws in other countries ban sex selection, thousands of people fly to the United States each year just to take advantage of this country’s lax fertility regulations. And it means big business for the fertility industry.
“It’s a moneymaking industry,” Laura Kerwin, a Harvard-trained psychologist, told Slate. “People need to realize that [clinics] have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to make money. They’re trying to sell you on an option.”
There is little to no oversight within the fertility industry, meaning there is little to no information on what the current state of the industry is. “We do not even know how many frozen embryos we have in this country,” Margaret Marsh, a professor at Rutgers University, told the Atlantic, explaining that the last count — 400,000 — was 20 years ago. “[Today] we have no idea.”
The Atlantic also noted that 75% of fertility clinics advertise sex-selection as an offered service, allowing people to undergo IVF simply because they want to choose if they have a boy or a girl. Steinberg told the Atlantic this “service” makes the fertility industry approximately $90 million each year.
Steinberg also scoffed at the notion of increased regulations, saying it is “putting the handcuffs on scientists.” Then, using pro-abortion terminology, he added, “If there’s anything society should have learned, it’s ‘Keep their hands off of people’s reproductive choices’.”
IVF, though often described as a way to help heartbroken infertile couples to create families, has created a monster in which children are no longer treated as human beings, but as products to be designed, engineered, and then sold to the highest bidder upon demand. And as these embryonic children are products, they can be screened, destroyed, traded, and even turned into jewelry.
Any attempts to cut back on this commodification is swiftly attacked as cruelty towards the infertile — but what about the children being created? What will it take for the line to be drawn and a stop be placed on this reproductive free-for-all?
In the year 2525.................is actually here in 2024..............
I bet if you asked Paris Hilton or the Kardashians if “gender affirmation surgery” or transgender-fluidity is real, they would say “YES”
But here are these two post-modern twits, using science at the moment of conception, to choose the fixed biological sex of their child
(and can we ignore that they are then simply killing those embryos that don’t match their whim?)
Will the western world have the shortage of young women that China is now experiencing because of their years of sex-selective abortion (combined with their one-child policy)?
“I bet if you asked Paris Hilton or the Kardashians if ...”
Oh that one is easy! Just give them a hermaphrodite (they do exist) baby.
One true example? Olympic runner Stella Walsh (born with the name Stanisława Walasiewicz) Guys would call her “Stella the Fella” You would look at her in one direction as she looked like a man, in another she looked like a woman. It’s creepy as all hell and I feel sorry for her.
Here is more on her
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82awa_Walasiewicz
I’m sure these IVF people could pull off a baby like her to appease these wokies.
“in the United States, it’s become the opposite: the market is skewed toward girls.”
Can they chose from all 57 genders?
This has been going on for at least a few years. Parents have been able to choose which sex they want implanted. Some don’t care at all, they’d just like to be parents. They test these embryos for all sorts of genetic diseases, so they obviously know which sex it is, too.
Diesn’t the kid choose gender, daily?
All that work for nothing.
Kill 8, keep 1. Rest.
A woman said it would be repulsive to have a baby boy?
Some people really shouldn’t be parents.
My (albeit imperfect) understanding of IVF was that the procedure routinely involved the implantation of several embryos - in the "hope" that at least one would "take."
I assume that, if more than one embryo "took," the medical team would then go in and "remove" (abort) the "supernumerary" embryos.
Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Regards,
Ri-ight! How dare they assume the sex of their embryo!
Regards,
Remember Octomom? She just refused abortion and carried all embryos to term
I met a (single) mom recently who was with her 6 year old boy. She told me she things he is hyper active (I don’t know what they call it these days but that is what they called it in my day).
I studied the boy the whole time I was with her and him and what I think?
He’s just a normal 6 year old boy that likes to run and play. Boys do that. I told her he needs a time and place to run wild like in a park, yard or field. Get all that energy out.
See girls are not like that, they sit and play with Barbie dolls. They don’t run around. Boys are all over the place, they are a handful. It really helps a boy to have a father that can run and play with him.
India, China and the Islamic world have been using sex selection without IVF for years. It involves a river, a bag of rocks, and a freshly born baby girl. Women’s groups in the west don’t like to hear this but it’s real. Now of course in the age of stem cells, baby parts are valuable so they would never be thrown into a river.
I believe that in Saudi Arab sex selection (IVF) is permitted. And guess which one?
IVF will be a disaster for these patriarchal societies that not only favor boys but treat girls like garbage. It is something I predicted long ago, where rural females in particular are routinely killed or abused, while upper- or middle-class women, who tend to be Western-educated, will abandon their society in favor of Western men, or not marry/reproduce at all.
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