[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, not everybody who gets IVF is sterile, i.e. incapable of becoming pregnant via sexual intercourse. Some of them chose IVF because they want to sort through multiple embryonic children, choosing some and discarding the rest; some choose it because they are lesbians, or female-separatists, or otherwise committed to cutting men out of social relationship with, and moral obligation to, the children they sire.

In every case, I think IVF should be banned. It often exposes both child and mother to enhanced risk; it often deliberately excludes the natural father, thus depriving the child's right to identity and provision based on the paternal relation; and it always, inherently, demeans the child by begetting him/her as an experiment, a product, or a possession.

The additional issue of deliberately bringing children into existence to be dependents on Holy Mother the State is just another facet of an already-pervasive derangement.

[org.whodat]

I think IVF should be banned.

Agreed, you need to dance with what god gave you!!

[Tax-chick]

not everybody who gets IVF is sterile, i.e. incapable of becoming pregnant via sexual intercourse

Good point. I was not thinking about those other situations, many of which also produce children who will be supported by the taxpayer rather than by their parent(s).

Regarding the rest of your post, I agre.