1 baby born, 15 killed: Why IVF is the Big Pharma way to solve the fertility crisis



President Trump has just signed an executive order to look into ways to expand access to in vitro fertilization — which has become a controversial issue among conservatives, since many pro-lifers view it as just as bad as abortion.

The process takes the egg of the mother, combines it with the sperm of the father, and puts it in a petri dish to create an embryo.

“IVF recreates the moment of conception but in a lab,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” says. “It’s a controversial process because at least those of us on the right, we celebrate the creation of life.”

“It’s a miracle that a couple that can’t have a child, or is struggling to conceive, can. But on the other hand, a lot of the embryos created in the lab are discarded, and if you believe that life begins at conception, that means you’re throwing away, or worse, experimenting on new life,” he adds.


Reportedly, over 90% of the children created through IVF die. They’re either left frozen and abandoned, destroyed due to eugenics, experimented on, or miscarried. Only 7% are born.

“This is such a gut-wrenching topic to talk about, because every baby born, regardless of the circumstances of their conception, is beautiful and worthy of dignity,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” tells Glenn.

“So all those beautiful babies that were created by IVF are not less so because that was the circumstances of their conception,” Wheeler says, noting that it also gives hope to those struggling to conceive themselves.

“IVF can fulfill this deep desire in your heart to have a baby. I fully empathize with that. But all that being said, the reality of in vitro fertilization is not what it is portrayed to be. Because for every one of those beautiful babies that’s born, about 15 babies are killed,” she tells Glenn.

“It’s not a pro-life endeavor to support in vitro fertilization as a solution to the infertility crisis that we are suffering in this nation,” she continues, adding that IVF is also “anti-MAHA.”

“One of the exciting things about the Trump administration is that he chose Bobby Kennedy to partner with him, to actually investigate the root causes of the chronic health crisis in our nation,” she explains. “Let’s apply that same philosophy to the fertility crisis, let’s not just put a Band-Aid over this, let’s go to the root cause and say, ‘Hey, why is women’s fertility struggling right now, what could be causing that, because that’s not how its supposed to be.’”

“It’s the same thing as what’s happening to our children. We have Big Pharma and Big Food, and it’s poisoning our bodies, it’s disrupting our endocrine systems, it’s disrupting our hormones,” she continues. “There are identifiable things, measurable things, that are happening to our bodies that we can reverse if we stop letting Big Food and Big Pharma dictate.”

“That’s where it gets back to IVF,” she tells Glenn. “This is a cash cow for Big Pharma. They make a ton of money off of in vitro fertilization.”

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‘Souls on ice’: The dark world of reproductive eugenics



Over a million “little, tiny image-bearers of God” are frozen on ice in the United States through IVF — some of which may never see the light of day.

“As pro-lifers, we believe that those are human beings made in the image of God. We know that those are human beings made in the image of God,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” tells the founder of Them Before Us, Katy Faust.

Faust agrees wholeheartedly and is disturbed by the treatment of these embryos.

“The American Society for Reproductive Medicine has some recommendations for what you do with those surplus embryos. The first option is to thaw and discard,” Faust explains. “The dehumanizing language is already just crazy.”

“The second option is to donate them to research. Destroy those little lives so that we can better figure out how to increase our fertility rate successes in the future. The third suggestion that they have is donate the baby to another couple,” she continues. “None of those three options honors children’s right to life and right to be known and loved by their mother and father.”


Of the embryos on ice, Faust explains, 20%-40% of them have been “functionally abandoned,” and some “have been on ice for 30 years or more.”

One option, Faust explains, is for couples to adopt the abandoned embryos. However, that does not come without a price.

“When we are properly understanding embryo adoption, not embryo donation, that is adults doing hard things on behalf of children. Those couples need to go in with the mindset of, ‘I am here to shepherd you through what is going to be the kind of questions that children in our species have never had to ask before,” Faust says.

“‘Why is it that I am genetically older than my own mother?’ You’re going to have to answer those questions to your kids. ‘Why is it that I was born and my parents had already died by the time that I was born?’ We are going to have some incredible struggles parenting those kids,” she continues.

However, some IVF-born children are now actively speaking out against embryo adoption.

“They are concerned that both on a public level, but also in terms of the industry, that it won’t do anything to stem the tide of the mass creation of surplus embryos. If there’s a perception that, ‘Oh, no problem, the surplus embryos are just going to get adopted,’ then there’s really no stop. There’s no reason for either the public to say, ‘That doesn’t seem right,’ or for the fertility industry to say, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t do this very often,’” Faust adds.

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Should Christians do IVF?



In vitro fertilization has skyrocketed in recent years, which is no surprise considering infertility has risen dramatically, couples are intentionally delaying childbearing for a variety of reasons, and IVF has become the most effective infertility treatment on the market.

But there are many theological debates circulating around IVF, especially when it comes to Christians who adamantly believe it is sinful to assume the role of God.

Christians struggling with infertility may find themselves hesitant and wondering if it’s biblically sound to give IVF a go.

Allie Beth Stuckey is ready to unpack the issue from a biblical perspective.

First, she makes it clear that “every single one of us will enter into heaven with a … long list of ideas and held beliefs that we are wrong about.”

“I don't think someone loses their salvation because they are a Christian and they go through IVF,” she says.

However, she does have some opinions when it comes to the subject:

“I think the worst possible way to use IVF is to fertilize as many eggs as possible, get as many embryos as possible, and then implant a couple … hope that they take, and then put the rest of them on ice or destroy the rest of them,” she explains.

“Not really caring what happens to the other embryos that are fertilized – whether they are frozen in perpetuity or whether they are destroyed – like that is a form of abandonment of your offspring because [Christians] believe that life starts at conception,” she says.

“We understand that these embryos are tiny little image bearers of God in their first stages of life.”

Ultimately, Allie “[doesn’t] recommend IVF,” but “the less problematic form of IVF is when you implant all of the embryos, all of the eggs that you fertilize … [and] give them all a shot at life.”

However, that doesn’t mean that IVF is foolproof, according to Allie; it just means “there are fewer ethical qualms.”

“Whenever technology takes us away from what's natural to what's possible, there will always be questions, there will always be gaps to be filled,” she says.

“One of the issues with IVF is that there is a high attrition rate; you know going into it that it is very likely that the embryos that you create will not survive; they will be miscarried … [and] won't grow to fruition, so you are taking a risk with that little human being's life purposely.”

She does acknowledge that natural conception can also result in miscarriage, but the chances are much higher with IVF.

“We can't conflate what we desire with God's calling, so just because we want something and just because something is technologically possible does not mean that it's moral or biblical or right,” Allie says.

“That does not mean that I think that parents who have children through IVF [are] bad parents, that they're evil, that their kids aren't valuable,” she assures. “I'm not even asking you to regret your children,” but “these are uncomfortable questions that we all have to ask ourselves.”


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Surrogacy horror: Gay ‘dads’ demand abortion



Brittney Pearson, a California mother of four, has claimed she was told to terminate a surrogate pregnancy at 24 weeks by the two gay men who hired her.

Pearson had been diagnosed with breast cancer, which doctors said would require aggressive chemotherapy to treat.

While Pearson wanted to attempt to save the baby and induce an early delivery, the gay couple refused — even when Pearson and her family members offered to adopt the child.

The entire situation has been incredibly tragic for Pearson, who says that when she received her diagnosis, the first thing that came into her head was that she needed to be there to buy her daughter a prom dress.

“She’s only 12, so she’s not going to prom yet, but I was like I need to be here for that.”

When the gay couple found out about her diagnosis, she recalls them not being “very nice."

Allie Beth Stuckey, horrified, asks Pearson what “not very nice” means.

“They just started threatening, like, lawsuits,” she recalls.

Doctors told her she could deliver prematurely at 36 weeks, but the couple wouldn’t go earlier than 39 weeks — no matter what.

Pearson claims she felt like a “rented uterus” who was “just being used instead of being a part of something.”

After the cancer had spread to Pearson’s liver, the gay couple refused to discuss any option other than terminating the pregnancy and threatened any doctor who delivered the baby with a lawsuit.

“They wanted no lifesaving measures if the baby was born alive,” she recalls, adding that “they wanted the baby just completely gone.”

Despite the couple’s attempt to force an abortion, Pearson found a hospital that would deliver the baby and had the baby, ironically, on Father’s Day.

“That’s the day their baby was born, if they even still think of it as a baby,” Pearson adds, noting that the couple kept calling the baby a “fetus” at every appointment.

Tragically, the baby did not survive, but was “held and cared for and loved for a short amount of time before they took him.”

While Pearson fought for the ability to deliver the baby, after the baby was born all decisions contractually were shifted to the couple — who did not want to try to save him.

“It’s something that will never not be right at the front of my mind.”


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