It is when things get applied to us personally that the rubber hits the road.
If we believe that human life begins at conception, we should not be doing in vitro stuff, even if we desperately want kids - at least at this juncture, because, as I understand it, many people in the embryonic stage of development are killed or frozen during the procedure.
Yes, even if it means never getting to be pregnant. It is a bit of a sacrifice.
I personally believe that couples who can’t get pregnant and desire children are being providentially called to adopt. I could be wrong, but that’s how I see it. There are children out there who need parents.
People are against abortion until their daughter gets pregnant, they have a baby in the womb with a defect, or they want in vitro with all of its negatives. Then, they get iffy.
Just like we tend to be against welfare until we qualify, hard on criminals until someone we love gets in trouble, etc.
It is all hypocrisy, and we need to call it out.
“I personally believe that couples who can’t get pregnant and desire children are being providentially called to adopt. I could be wrong, but that’s how I see it. There are children out there who need parents.”
ITA. I was in a work situation a few years ago where a lesbian manager and her “wife” were “having” an ivf child. I was really annoyed by the pressure they put on us to think this was “wonderful”. I wanted to say “I don’t approve of 2 women purposely bring a child into this world who didn’t ask to be born in this situation to begin with and deliberately depriving him of his father on purpose. If you truly believe you are lesbians, then maybe that’s a sign not to reproduce in the first place since human reproduction can only happen heterosexually.” But of course, I would’ve been fired immediately for stating an obvious truth.