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Posted on 11/13/2025 11:02:08 PM PST by Morgana
A report released by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) earlier this year exposed a dark reality of in vitro fertilization (IVF): in adults' quest to create children, most of the children they create using IVF will not survive.
As the number of IVF cycles increases year after year, so does the number of lives lost to the process — and it's staggering. The total number of lives lost as a result of IVF is now surpassing the number of lives lost to induced, elective abortion each year.
Key Takeaways:
* More children are now dying from the IVF process than are dying from abortion in the U.S.
* In 2023, there were 432,641 IVF cycles at 371 reporting clinics, but only 95,860 babies were born.
* That year, an estimated 1,946,884 embryos did not survive to be implanted, and another 1,759,664 were either frozen, destroyed, donated to research, or released for embryo adoption.
* In comparison, there were 1,037,000 abortions in the US in 2023.
The Details:
According to SART, which is an affiliate of the pro-abortion American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the number of IVF cycles carried out in the US continues to rise at a faster rate than the number of live births associated with IVF.
In 2023, the number of IVF cycles carried out at the 371 reporting SART member clinics reached 432,641, an increase of nearly 11% from 2022 (389,993). But the number of babies born from IVF totalled just 95,860, an increase of only 4.45% from 2022 (91,771 in 2022) — a small fraction of the number of embryos created. Where are all of those other children?
Reproductive Medicine Associates offers this chart detailing an example of the process: Chart shows 12 eggs fertilized resulting in 3 embryos for transfer.
Photo: Reproduction Medicine Associates.
For comparison, the IVF company Alfie offers this breakdown:
A chart shows that of 10 embryos created via IVF, three will be considered normal and two might be implanted.
Based on these charts, there is an average of 10-12 embryos created per IVF cycle, but fertility businesses often list anywhere from seven embryos up to as many as 17 per cycle. Using a conservative nine embryos as the average number created per cycle, at 432,641 cycles, that totals about 3,893,769 embryos created via IVF in 2023 alone. Yet only 95,860 babies were born.
Here's how those numbers break down. Up to half of the original 3,893,769, likely did not survive beyond the next two stages: the blastocyst stage and the genetic testing stage. The embryos were graded and labeled during testing, and those not deemed healthy enough were automatically destroyed.
That's about 1,946,884 embryos who died or were deliberately killed without being given a chance to be implanted.
Of the remaining estimate of 1,946,884, SART states that 91,360 were automatically "banked" for "future use," as was the parents' plan when they began the process. We also know that after being graded, labeled, selected, and transferred, only 95,860 survived to birth.
That leaves 1,759,664 human embryos unaccounted for. They survived to the blastocyst stage and passed genetic testing, but they were then either miscarried, destroyed, donated to researchers (and ultimately destroyed), released for embryo adoption (just 1-6%), or are frozen indefinitely. The data don't tell us, but we can estimate that at least 1.9 million died before even making it to the implantation or freezing stage of the IVF process, and another 1.7 million are not statistically accounted for.
In comparison, according to Guttmacher, 1,037,880 abortions were committed in the US in 2023.
Why It Matters:
The number of humans dying during the IVF process each year has surpassed the number of humans dying from abortion each year in the US.
The mere fact that half of the IVF embryos won't make it beyond the initial first steps after fertilization, including the health screening, should be enough to prove that IVF is not about creating life but about controlling it, determining which lives are accepted as valuable and worthy and which are automatically destroyed for being deemed 'subpar.' Thumbnail for IVF Doctors and Parents Who Conceived Using IVF Share Their Regrets
A process marketed as "pro-life" can never involve the deliberate destruction of human life. No human being deserves to be graded, labeled, and destroyed for not living up to expectations or to be treated as a commodity aimed at fulfilling a fertility clinic's desire to give clients a "quality product."
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Heartbreaking.
This is very selective to make this exaggerated claim.
I highly doubt ivf beats abortions. If you include the number of abortions by the Plan B pill as well, which is estimated by PP at a 1.5 million a year, exceeds the ivf number.
People,who want to arggue will say plab b doesnt cause abortions, but it technically does. Quibble about it with terms and definitions but thats what it does. Tpsince feminized liberals write the story they didn’t include it in the abortion number.
Both are still horrifically high.
bookmark.
I don’t think abortion and IVF are analogous for comparison. Wiithout IVF, those 93,000 babies likely wouldn’t be here either, and the destroyed embryos would still be lost. That is the limited extent of this comment.
There were ca 3 600 000 live births in the USA in 2023. Between 10 - 20% of all pregnancies end up in miscarriages. This is a low figure since many occur very early in the pregnancy and go undetected. About 80% of the miscarriages occur in the first trimester. So, a low estimate would indicate that there were more than 700 000 early spontaneous abortions in 2023.
Unfortunately, if mankind wants to avoid any fetal deaths then we must not try to procreate.
Abortion takes a person to carry it through. IVF failure is nature in the works.
I don’t want to pay for things that I regard as immoral.
How many naturally occurring fertilities do not result in pregnancy? I assume it’s more than zero, and should be used in comparison.
This happens because greedy doctors want thousands of dollars per cycle.
For health care, bring on market force:
1. Break most hospitals into two highly competitive entities
....
8. reform medical education, breaking down medicine and dentistry into simpler chunks and start it in the first year of college
....
“most people will take gonadotropins — follicle-stimulation hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone(LH) — which stimulate the ovaries to produce multiple eggs during a cycle.”
“These injections will be administered over about 10 to 12 consecutive days and taken subcutaneously in the belly.”
“During the stimulation phase, you will usually have 3 to 5 monitoring visits to assess the progress of your follicles. Once the follicles reach a good size, you’ll receive a trigger shot, which is an injectable medication — usually either human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), lupron, or a combination of the two.”
“During the egg retrieval, your doctor will use a transvaginal ultrasound probe with a needle, which is inserted into your follicles under ultrasound guidance. The fluid inside the follicles that contains the eggs is aspirated and collected into tubes”
“The embryologist will examine the follicular fluid and identify the eggs. The entire process takes roughly 10 to 20 minutes to complete.”
https://www.healthline.com/health/egg-freezing-process
Eggs could be frozen and fertilized one-by-one over time.
I would think that if embryos could be frozen, so could eggs.
My nephew’s wife tried IVF several years, total failure, so they stopped…. And suddenly she got pregnant the old-fashioned way.
And then there’s the question of whether or not IVF increases the risk for ovarian/uterine/breast cancer.
That question has not yet been answered.
What really breaks my heart is how many of my sperm die every time I have sex.
And if the wife doesn’t conceive- her egg dies. People should know their happens to everyone all the time. Life is a miracle.
Richard Brautigan wrote a poem about that in the 60s
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
By Richard Brautigan
When you take your pill
it’s like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside of you.
Which means that the number of the former is far less than the latter, since 63%* of abortions are via the damnable poison pill. *https://www.guttmacher.org/2024/03/medication-abortion-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020
I don’t understand. The situation that I described has been happening since the beginning of time.
Your sperm are not human beings with unique DNA. Your wife’s ova are not human beings with unique DNA.
Human beings start at conception, when a sperm fertilizes an ovum.
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