Among the initiatives that President Trump has already signed is one that would expand the use of in-vitro fertilization, making it more available and affordable.
From whitehouse.gov:
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The Order directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments.
- The recommendations will focus on how to ensure reliable access to IVF.
- Priority will also be placed on addressing any current policies, including those that require legislation, that exacerbate the cost of IVF treatments.
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The Order recognizes the importance of family formation and that our Nation’s public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children.
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tments are needed.
- The cost can range from $12,000 to $25,000 per cycle and multiple cycles may be needed to get pregnant.
- IVF is often not fully covered by health insurance.
- Only a quarter of employers report coverage of IVF for their employees.
- Just a handful of states require some sort of coverage for IVF in state-regulated insurance plans.
- The federal government covers IVF in a limited capacity for military personnel, veterans, and federal employees.
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Department of Health and Human Services data reports that more than 85,000 infants were born as a result of IVF in 2021.
While the above information sounds pro-family, no initiative that continues to promote the conception of children to be discarded or placed in freezers around our nation—to be left there without a plan for their lives or futures— can be pro-family. What the initiative fails to address is that, 
while 85,000 babies were born through IVF in 2021, more than 238,000 patients attempted IVF in the same year. If clinics created 7 or 8 embryos (children) for each of these patients (a conservative estimate), then that would yield 1.6 to 1.9 million live embryos. With only 85,000 of these embryos being brought to term in 2021, that leaves somewhere between 1.5 million and 1.8 million embryos being created, but never brought to term. Small numbers of these “extra embryos” will be retrieved later or adopted out, but between 2004 and 2019, there were only 8500 births from adopted embryos. *
In America today, we are actually killing more babies with IVF than we are in the abortion industry!
The devil creatively weaves sin and death into initiatives that appear to be pro-family. Further, it should not be just the Catholic segment of the religious world that mounts a small opposition to the rampant use of IVF in our country today. God’s people in the church of Jesus Christ should be vocal and determined in efforts to stop the creation of embryos that will be destroyed once the strongest and “most viable” have been given the privilege of even having a “post-birth.”
I will, almost certainly, be accused of being unsympathetic to couples who want to be loving parents. Once again, though, I cannot turn a blind eye to the deaths of a half-million per year, whose parents have conceded, prior to the procedure, their immediate or delayed deaths. It’s unconscionable, that we, as a nation, have largely given up the fight for these babies, who outnumber those whose lives are ended after they are growing in the womb in the slaughter that is the abortion industry.
*https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257066/more-human-embryos-destroyed-through-ivf-than-abortion-every-year
