On the other side of the coin from abortion is In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Abortion doesn't trust in the goodness of God in creating a child, and IVF doesn't trust in the goodness of God in withholding a child. One doesn't want a child they have, while the other wants a child that they don't have.  

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With the increase in abortions is the increase in infertility, as one of the consequences of abortion for many women is permanent infertility. Doctors may engage in both aborting and creating children in a kind of on-going cycle. 

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With the increase in abortions, there is also a decrease in available babies to adopt. Currently, there are 36 couples wanting to adopt a baby for every one baby available.

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Like most temptations, IVF promises a shortcut to trusting and waiting on God for His answer and whatever God thinks is best for our life. IVF perpetrates power and control over the creation of a child, one's circumstance, natural ability, and dependence on God to produce children.  

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Little understood, the controversy around IVF is multifaceted. Here are some of the concerns:

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A homosexual or infertile couple want to bypass natural biological abilities to create a child outside the act of love making. A doctor, rather than the husband, implants a pregnancy inside the woman, disrupting the love making and bonding process that God gave to a wife and husband within a committed marriage relationship. God created a process where a child is to be conceived in love, birthed in love, and parented in love. God also created the process as a beautiful expression of His love and an opportunity for people to depend on and know God.

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Through IVF, the beautiful gift of expression within marriage is reduced to a biological process that treats humans as animals to give them what they think they want and cannot be happy in life without. It violates the marriage bond and spiritual oneness of the union and replaces God with scientists in the middle of the relationship.

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Through IVF, a man - the husband or a man outside the marriage - is exposed to pornographic materials to produce sperm outside the relationship with his wife, an immoral act.​ A woman is hyped up on dangerous amounts of hormones to mature an unnatural amount of eggs to be harvested which can harm her physically, emotionally, and in her relationships.

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More children are produced than will be implanted, and many of these children during embryonic development are inhumanely frozen, experimented on, or destroyed. ​More children are implanted than necessary in the womb, not all children are healthy, and children are electively killed through "pregnancy reduction" or "termination" (aka abortion). 

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Through IVF, human beings are purchased, bought, and sold as property, both the children during embryonic development and many biological parents who may be paid as sperm donors or surrogate mothers. Surrogate mothers are bound by contract and may have to abort the child if those contracting instruct, and at birth, she must give up the baby she has carried and who has bonded with her, creating potential trauma for both her and the child.

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These children may never know who their biological parents are, and their actual parents may have never met each other. These children may never know their medical histories or extended relatives and siblings. There may be more pressure placed on these children to perform up to their advertised potential if they are a "Designer Baby".

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The use of IVF to produce "Designer Babies" reduces having children to meeting parents' standards more than loving a child for the unique person they are and as entrusted to them by God. There is little known about the environmental versus biological correlation of talent and personality of children who are produced as commodities for the purchase of parents. Children created biologically from other parents reduces a parent's ability to identify with their child and the child's ability to connect with parents. 

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IVF disrupts the love-making process, trust in the goodness of God in creating a child, and mistreats the humanity of these children deserving of dignity and compassion.

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"no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless." (Psalm 84:11)

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IVF: The World's Deadliest Industry​​​

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IVF, Conjugal Love and Marriage | Human Life International

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Designer Babies Are Teenagers Now—and Some of Them Need Therapy Because of It | WIRED

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The Christian Family, In Vitro Fertilization, and Heroic Witness to True Love - Catholic Diocese of Arlington

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Snowflakes Embryo Adoption & Donation

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IVF (Handout)