Biological Colonialism: Dutch Controversy Over Anything Goes IVF » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: IVF was promised as a generally minor matter that would be available for married couples, otherwise unable, to have biological children. Of course, that relatively conservative agenda held for about two seconds. It is now a huge industry, with unmarried people using it to get pregnant, people renting wombs from objectified “gestational carriers,” embryos being made for experimentation, hundreds of thousands stored for future use, buying eggs, eugenically testing and discarding embryos as if they were cuts of meat, and turning procretion generally into a consumer activity about not having a baby, but the baby we want and to which we are entitled.
Surprisingly, the Dutch–of all people–have held a much firmer line.
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