Posted on 07/16/2026 2:03:02 PM PDT by Morgana
Even though the U.S. abortion industry kills roughly 1 million unborn babies each year, data reveals that the number of conceived lives lost in America through in vitro fertilization (IVF) processes is far outpacing elective abortion.
According to 2022 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the scale of loss of conceived embryos from IVF that year was nearly triple the lives lost to the abortion industry at more than 2.9 million. In 2022, IVF clinics reported that patients underwent more than 435,000 IFV cycles, in which each cycle conceives about seven embryos.
Researchers estimate that slightly more than 3 million embryos were created from these cycles. To maximize safety and success, the standard practice is to transfer only one embryo at a time leaving approximately 85 percent of the other created embryos (more than 2.5 million) to be frozen, discarded, or donated for scientific experimentation. Additionally, a 75 percent failure rate in 2022 showed that the 435,000 cycles resulted in about 98,000 live births out of the 3 million embryos created.
Medical experts suggest that between 1.2 million and 1.5 million embryos are currently stored in cryopreservation across the country where only a minute fraction will ever be thawed and implanted. Compared to the 1 million lives lost to elective abortion annually, the IVF industry is showing a significantly higher volume of lost, conceived lives.
Tragically, in addition, the IVF industry is growing largely without oversight. Minimal regulations are giving rise to the phrase that the U.S IVF industry is the “wild west.” Unlike the U.S. adoption process and the regulated IVF standards in other nations, the U.S. and many states do not restrict who can commission IVF services or regulate the process itself. There are few, if any, regulations based on marital status, age, background screenings, surrogacy, how many embryos can be created, and how they are to be frozen and stored. In addition, what used to be seen as a last resort for infertile married couples, the IVF market is now seeing demand from same-sex couples “purchasing gametes and hiring surrogates” to get babies.
As long as IVF clinics continue to operate as businesses where high volume and higher success rates are rewarded with financial gain, the U.S. IVF market is projected to exceed $15 billion annually by 2035.
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “Every human life begins as an embryo and has incalculable worth. The data makes a compelling case that the unregulated, commercialized IVF industry is destroying far more conceived lives than it births and even surpasses the elective abortion industry due to its high-volume scale per cycle. The U.S. IVF market needs regulation. Every unborn life should be protected, no matter their stage or location.”
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That sounds like something that happens in China, where people are treated like livestock.
Quick! Someone call government!
More government!
We need more! More agencies! More experts!!!!!!!!!!!!! The more unelected the more better!!!
More, MORE, MOREMOREMOREMOREMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Government, government forever, muahahahaha!!!
A living Human from conception. It can be nothing else.
Enforcing laws against murder is not more government - it's a core function of any sane government.
One of the few legit functions of government is to protect people from getting killed by other people.
That may be the main legit function.
“98,000 live births out of the 3 million embryos created.” Yup. That’s why IVF is immoral and unethical. Only 3% of embryos become adults and 97% are destroyed. Bottom line: embryos are people, too, and destroying them is Commandment number 6. “Thou shalt not kill.”
So IVF kills babies by not using, freezing, etc. Compare it to natural fertilization. How many fertilized eggs never make it, don’t get set in the womb, etc? Seems like natural fertilization could be killing more babies than IVF.
By that logic, murder is not so bad because many more people die of natural causes.
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