But “only the strong survive” with natural procreation too.
In a natural pregnancy, many, many naturally fertilized embryos fail to implant or grow further, and many, many fetuses miscarry naturally. Nature is imperfect and there is a lot of attrition.
IVF is no different.
Not every fertilized egg makes it to a live birth, whether with natural or IVF pregnancies.
>>IVF is no different.<<
Yes it is. In nature one egg a month, maybe two is lost when it does not adhere to the uterine wall. It certainly doesn’t happen every month.
In IVF, according to the references here, 5 to 17 eggs are fertilized. 3 or more are attempted to adhere. The rest are frozen or thrown away. Those that are frozen have a good chance of deteriorating and are not viable in the end.
So we have created 5 to 17 humans. CHOSE to do that.
Think of it this way. The difference between a natural miscarriage and the intentional destruction of embryos is precisely the difference between the unfortunate case of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome vs. the unconscionable case of smothering an infant with a pillow. What Mother Nature does and what I freely choose to do as an acting person are two separate realities, not to be confused. To put it dramatically, the fact that Mother Nature sends tsunamis that claim the lives of thousands of victims doesn’t somehow make it OK for me to shoot a machine gun into a crowded stadium and claim thousands of victims of my own.
(quoted from a dear Priest)