A question for the pro-life members of MN

[SemperIdem]

The biggest argument always boils down to “taking a life away, acting like God”.

So - how does IVF sit with you? Are you anti it, because it is “acting like God”. Are you for it because acting like God to create a life is somehow fine whereas taking one away is not?

Do you understand that many IVF pregnancies are high risk and may ultimately require medical management aka abortions?

I’m firmly pro science and think access to both abortions and IVF is a wonderful thing, for avoidance of doubt.

One never sees protests outside fertility clinics and I wondered why.

Which people?

I think people have a very simplified image of adoption.

My friends recently adopted, it took 2 years, lots of hoops to jump through. I've heard couples getting rejected as they were going through fertility problems, the rationale was if they were to be able to naturally conceive in the future, they can't trust their full commitment to the child.

The assessments to show you are capable and committed to adoption are tough, because to be blunt, it takes a really special person (or people) to be able to truly love a child that's not biologically yours like he or she is yours. They exist, but not everyone who considers adoption are those people.

My friends took part in training with 5 other couples, all but one of those 5 couples said they would not adopt a disabled child, or a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. Which sadly, quite a large proportion of the babies/toddlers/children were in that category.

Most couples only wanted a child under the age of 1.

It seems most women who get pregnant who are not ready or fit for a child, decide on birth that they'll try, before they (or the state) realise its not working, so new born baby's up for adoption are rare.

Basically, out of the 5 who got to quite a late stage in the process, 3 ended up dropping out.

They were answering the question. I amsure they are aware of the law.

Never implied otherwise.