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Guest Post: A careless dinner-party remark, years of infertility, fostering, and embryo adoption taught Kirsten Upadhye why adoption isn’t a cure for childlessness, and what it reflects instead
Read →The emotional and physical experience of natural childbirth with the commercial surrogacy process, highlighting the emotional distance surrogates must maintain from the children they bear and the complex identity issues surrogacy creates for the child. It also discusses the lack of federal regulation, the invasive nature of surrogacy contracts, and presents cases illustrating the legal and ethical challenges faced by surrogates and children in commercial surrogacy arrangements.
Read →Surrogates in the U.S. are paid between $45,000 and $75,000 to carry and birth children for others, which is close to the median individual income, but this compensation rarely ensures protection for the baby, surrogate, or transparency about complications.
Read →The Alabama Supreme Court's 2024 IVF decision extended personhood to human embryos for the purpose of a 'Wrongful Death of a Minor' lawsuit, bringing IVF, surrogacy, and infertility issues to the forefront of national discussion. As political parties positioned themselves as 'pro-parent, pro-IVF,' many evangelicals began to reconsider their views on these topics, questioning the assumption that IVF is inherently pro-life because it creates life.
Read →Waters distinguishes egg freezing from embryo freezing while examining how fertility preservation can lead into ethically contested IVF practices. She urges Christian women to weigh medical, theological and pro-life concerns before using fertility technology.
Read →Waters discusses the uncertain legal status of frozen embryos and emerging technologies such as artificial wombs and in vitro gametogenesis. She argues that law should recognize human embryos directly rather than relying on location or method of conception as proxies for protection.
Read →In almost every U.S. state, a frozen embryo isn't a person — it's property. And a wave of new technology is about to make that answer impossible to defend.
Read →Commercial surrogacy is banned in China. So Chinese nationals are doing it here instead — and America's permissive surrogacy laws are making it easy.
Read →What the Supreme Court's decision on birthright citizenship means for cross-border commercial surrogacy, China, and the welfare of women and children
Read →Waters uses an embryo mix-up case to examine the ethical and legal consequences of IVF errors. She argues that children created through reproductive technology have interests in biological identity that should not be reduced to the claims of adults or clinics.
Read →Waters challenges the claim that IVF is automatically pro-life because it can result in births. She focuses on embryos that are frozen, discarded or genetically selected and argues that pro-life ethics must account for every embryo created.
Read →IVF creates life... so how is IVF not pro-life? Most of us haven't been given the full picture of how IVF actually works.
Read →Waters examines falling birth rates alongside the growth of IVF and fertility technology. She argues for a pro-life approach that addresses underlying infertility while scrutinizing embryo creation, loss and industry incentives.
Read →Waters introduces Rethinking Fertility as a project examining infertility and reproductive technology from a life-affirming Christian perspective. She argues that a consistent belief that life begins at conception requires greater scrutiny of IVF, embryo selection, freezing and destruction.
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