IVF

Let's talk about IVF. In Vitro fertilization. You know, treatment to make people who cannot have children biologically able to produce not only a child, but a freak litter of children.

There's something very wrong with it, in my opinion. Especially for those 'it's in Gawd's hands' people.

Ladies and gents, if the number of children you have is based on what Gawd wants to give you, maybe you should leave the doctors out of it? Gawd isn't deciding to 'bless' you with offspring, the medical community is forcing your body into it. It's rather like saying it was Gawd's will that I aborted. No, modern medicine had nothing to do with it. That annoying IV? Gawd manifesting itself. The medicine to dilate my cervix? Gawd again. So, hey, Gawd can't be against abortion, Gawd facilitated mine!

But wait, hardcore Christians tend to believe abortion is wrong. Does that mean Satan was the IV? But why is it different when medical treatment creates six or more embryos in your uterus, compared to removing one from mine? Is Satan also in the treatment inducing the embryos to form? Are miscarriages also Gawd?

I don't think deities have any place in science. That's all us.

But moving on.

Doctors who perform IVF are no better than backyard breeders. They produce litters of an overpopulated species, where many are routinely killed, abused, neglected and abandoned on a daily basis. There are hundreds, nay thousands waiting to be taken into a home, and these people are wilfully creating more to take a spot that could have been filled by an already living, breathing, existing creature. Are they improving the species? No. If you need IVF, the odds are you shouldn't be breeding, because there is something wrong with you biologically. Inability to concieve should be taken as a sign that maybe you shouldn't be reproducing.

These people, both BYBs and IVF doctors, are getting paid to produce genetically flawed, unnecessary creatures. Now, a lot of people I know dislike BYBs immensely. They're irresponsible. But why is this scorn not extended to human BYBs? To people who are paid to produce a human litter? It's the same basic premise, so why not?

People want a baby\puppy, so why shouldn't these people produce them? Well, dogs and people are overpopulated. This means there are too many. This means there are dogs in shelters and children in foster care. I know a wonderful foster parent, but I've heard the horror stories as well. Why is it okay then for a woman to pop out septuplets? Why is she getting corporate sponsorship for a decision made in full knowledge that she could end up with so many? A child, or a freak litter, born using IVF is not a miracle. It's a perversion of medicine. It's rather sickening. What's wrong with adopting a child? What's wrong with adopting a dog? Why must you have a puppy\baby, instead of one a little older, and theoretically, easier to live with? Your dog isn't going to either wake you in the night to be let out to potty or pee on your floor, and a child isn't going to keep you up all night screaming to be fed or changed.

Even more than that, why is it so important to people to have a child that is biologically theirs, instead of someone else's? Do any of you remember, without looking it up or asking anyone, your grandparents' names, first, last, and maiden? Your great-grandparents? Your great-great grandparents? Seriously, leave a comment telling me how far back you remember these names. I'm curious. You're not leaving yourself behind when you have a kid. You're not becoming immortal. Eventually, you will still be forgotten. Your genes? Well, think on this: your kid will have half your genes. Their kid will probably have about a quarter. Thiers an eighth. Eventually, your genes will be bred out. And this is providing your kid or grandkid passes on any of your genes, as opposed to the genes of their second parent. Your genes could die out as soon as the second generation removed from you. That's not immortality either. Ascend past your genes.