Tag: IVF

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, chattel slaves, children, Christian bioethics, Christof Koch, conception, Denyse O'Leary, human beings, in vitro fertilization, industrial manufacture, IVF, Michael Shermer, organ donors, persons, Piers Morgan, Roman Catholicism, sexual slaves, Skeptic (podcast), soldiers, The Immortal Mind}

A Disagreement with Shermer on the Ethics of IVF

_{Michael Egnor
July 8, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). These are very real concerns. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, Alabama Supreme Court, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, independence, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University}

The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alabama Supreme Court, American history, children, courts, deaths, defendants, embryos, IVF, law, legislators, parents, Steven Novella, Yale University}

Are IVF Human Embryos “Children”?

_{Michael Egnor
March 8, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

5}

Recently, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that human embryos accidentally killed in an IVF clinic mishap are considered children under Alabama law. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, Brooklyn, California, children, fertility, gestation, health insurance, IVF, males, medicine, New York City, pathology, The Guardian, transgenderism, uterus}

Why We Will Never Control Medical Costs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 3, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

4}

The purposes of medicine are expanding rapidly beyond treating actual illnesses/injuries and promoting wellness. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 13, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, birth, CRISPR, development, embryo, fallopian tube, fertilization, health, IVF, London, pregnancy, quality control, selective reduction, solipsism}

The Vanity of Big Fertility

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 13, 2019

Medicine

3}

This technique was designed solely to benefit the mothers, not the baby. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Aldous Huxley, babies, biotech, Brave New World, Center for Bioethics and Culture, China, dehumanization, Dubai, embryos, eugenics, FDA, gametes, genetic engineering, germline, gestational carriers, He Jiankui, IVF, Jennifer Lahl, Politicians, procreation, regulation, Stanford University, William Hurlbut}

Don’t Let Profiteers Control Human Genetic Engineering

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

4}

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dire warning. But we aren’t paying heed. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 4, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __nedited, abortion, biotechnology, chromosomes, cloning, fetus, Frankenstein, genetic material, gestation, human cloning, human life, IVF, mitochondria, mitochondrial DNA, UK Parliament, United Kingdom, zygote}

First State-Sanctioned Three-Parent Babies to be Born

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 4, 2018

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

3}

The children could have serious health consequences — either early or later in life — having been generated, after all, from two broken eggs. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 19, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, birth, Daily Mail, embryo, IVF, mother}

After 24 Years as a Frozen Embryo, a Baby Is Born

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 19, 2017

Bioethics, Biology, Life Sciences, Medicine

2}

I think this story should affect the way we look at the moral value of frozen IVF embryos. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 4, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Bill Nye, embryos, IVF, Oskar Schindler, The Stream, Wesley J. Smith}

“Extra People” — Now Turned into Jewelry

_{David Klinghoffer
May 4, 2017

Bioethics, Evolution, Life Sciences

2}

Our friends at The Stream were kind enough to adapt some of what I’ve written here on Bill Nye, Oskar Schindler, and the notion of “extra people.” Read More ›