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14 Pro-Life Alternatives To IVF For Infertile Couples Who Desire Children

As couples increasingly question IVF ethics, they are seeking better options. Here are 14 to consider.

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In Trump’s State of the Union address, he noted his drug cost reduction efforts could help a woman facing the heartbreak of infertility and undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). Trump is right to care about couples facing infertility, but wrong to support IVF. 

Infertility is one of the hardest sufferings couples face. IVF doesn’t actually solve the problem; it frequently results in embryo destruction, as Allie Beth Stuckey pointed out in her podcast response.

“More embryos, unborn lives, are killed in the IVF industry than in the abortion industry every year,” she observed. 

If that’s true, and conservative women who face infertility, like myself, deeply long for motherhood, what other options are there? Let’s put everything else on the table to really understand any other ethical ways to pursue the goal of parenthood.

All of these options are difficult, but truly, parenthood of biological children is difficult also. Various sufferings befall our lives, and we exist in a mix of surrender and choice. Yet couples still have choices, and still can have the opportunity to craft a meaningful life — pursuing biological, adoptive, or spiritual parenthood without IVF. These options are not mutually exclusive and many can be pursued simultaneously. 

Acceptance and Recognition of Spiritual Parenthood

There’s a reason this is listed first. It’s so frequently seen as a last resort, but really has to be part of the discernment process before anything else can be pursued. It can also help during the difficult seasons of waiting for parenthood. Furthermore, it can serve as an example in the community to all adults — parents and not — to pour into the children around them. 

More Spiritual Parenthood

Every married couple is already a family. Having a child isn’t “starting a family,” which began when you took your vows. For couples who are not conceiving, accepting “childlessness” is an option. But these couples often find their lives filled with other people’s children, who become their spiritual children. Their friends’ children often factor into this.

Some choose to become teachers or mentors to vulnerable kids. Some become CASAs (Court Appointed Special Advocates) to represent the........

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