I acknowledge that Trump is not the most religious person nor do I expect him to be a paragon of the faith and doctrine — God is using him mightily regardless - but Christians esp with any degree of scholarly training, owe it to the faithful to open up the can of worms that is IVF. We need a reckoning.
I'm generally on your side - IVF (incl. surrogacy) is fraught with moral conundrums: A clinic could, conceivably, contract with a billionaire to use his sperm to fertilize a million ova, and freeze the resultant embryos in some sort of "Doomsday Vault" buried under the Rocky Mountains. Decades could then pass. The billionaire could die. All the ovum-donors could die. The cryogenic facility could go bankrupt. Once the monthly electricity bills are no longer being paid, the embryos could begin to thaw. This would open up a colossal "can of worms." What is the status of these embryos? Who "owns" them? What if no one wants them (wants to thaw and implant them and carry them to term)? What if LOTS of people want them? What if the taxpayers who have to foot the bill etc., etc.?
The most-prudent course of action would probably be to simply prohibit it outright, in toto, from the get-go.
Sorry if that sounds harsh - but even in the best of circumstances (father has "weak" sperm, but mother is fertile; IVF clinic effects the implantation of one or two embryos, but doesn't rightly know what to do with the inevitable supernumerary embryos), some morally borderline decisions are unavoidable (most obviously: the "disposal" of the supernumerary embryos).
That's the "best" scenario. But today, we are seeing gay couples (both men) contracting for surrogates, lesbians deliberately becoming single mothers (with govt. approval, no less!), etc.
My basic maxim is that we shouldn't always reach for extreme cases when establishing public policy. The existence of "outliers" and "isolated, extreme cases) should not be allowed to influence the laying-down of public policies. But in the case of IVF, it looks like these "cock-ups" happen with far too much frequency.
Regards,