IVF Kills More Unborn Babies Than Planned Parenthood

If your goal is to bring a baby into this world, why would you turn to an industry that takes more children out of the world than Planned Parenthood?

What IVF Actually Is

IVF combines eggs and sperm outside the body to help couples facing infertility get pregnant, but it does not diagnose or fix what’s actually causing that infertility. Biologically, the moment an egg and sperm form an embryo in the lab is the moment a distinct human life begins. And typically, many are created at the same time to increase the chances that one of them will result in a live birth. Clinics then grade embryos on apparent fitness and discard those judged less likely to implant, even though a lower grade doesn’t reliably predict genetic health. Most clinics also screen for chromosomal abnormalities, allow sex selection, and a few actually let parents select for traits like hair and eye color.

The Odds Nobody Tells You

Even with all of that, the odds of a live birth are worse than most people realize. IVF’s success rate sits at just 23 percent, and for women over 40 it drops below 10 percent, but even that figure only counts embryos that actually get transferred. The U.S. doesn’t track how many IVF embryos are transferred to the womb and given a chance at life at all, though research from the U.K. found that far more embryos were destroyed or left in storage than were ever transferred. Based on CDC reporting on the number of IVF cycles performed in the U.S., it’s estimated that only 2.3 percent of children created through IVF ever result in a live birth.

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Every year, millions of children are destroyed through IVF, more than Planned Parenthood kills through abortion. The baby-making industry is actually a baby-taking industry.

That desire to have children is good and natural but we have to consider the methods we use in order to bring children into this world because not every method is moral.

The Better Option: NaProTechnology

So what does it actually look like to treat infertility instead of bypassing it? What does it look like to treat infertility without harming children? NaProTechnologytakes the opposite approach from IVF. Rather than creating an embryo outside the body and hoping they survive implantation, NaPro treatments work to improve egg or sperm

quality, address the underlying hormonal or health issues causing infertility, or surgically repair reproductive organs so the body can conceive naturally. Dr. Gavin Puthoff, a board certified gynecologist and founder of Veritas Fertility and Surgery who specializes in NaProTechnology and restorative fertility surgery, put the core difference this way in a recent interview: “NaPro technology, the way we see infertility, is it’s not a disease. It is the symptom of other underlying conditions that cause the infertility.” Instead of routing around whatever is wrong, NaPro starts by understanding what’s actually happening hormonally with a woman’s cycle, then treats the cause.

Better Outcomes, Zero Deaths

That difference in approach shows up in the outcomes. Depending on the diagnosis, NaProTechnology success rates are often higher than IVF’s, and cumulative success rates, meaning a couple’s odds after multiple cycles, generally settle out around 60 percent, with some reports of 60 to 80 percent success depending on the underlying condition treated. It’s also often far more affordable than repeated rounds of IVF. And because NaPro restores a couple’s own fertility rather than manufacturing embryos in a lab, it avoids the ethical minefield IVF creates entirely: no embryo grading, no discarded embryos, no indefinite frozen storage, no genetic selection. Just a body that’s diagnosed, treated, and given the chance to do what it was designed to do.

Many couples are told that IVF is their only route but that simply isn’t true.

“Married couples facing infertility deserve to know that there are alternatives to IVF that won’t wreck them spiritually, physically, or financially,” she insisted. “This education could come from countless sources: through marriage counselors, health systems, church leadership, sex education programs, and even government leaders. Perhaps some of the most effective education will take place between friends, saying, ‘They told us IVF was our only option, but they were wrong.’” – Joy Stockbauer, a policy analyst for the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council.

The Bottom Line

So, if your goal is to bring a baby into this world, why would you hire an industry that takes more children out of the world than Planned Parenthood does? You don’t have to. The desire for a child is good, it’s one of the most natural desires a person can have, but a good desire doesn’t justify any method used to fulfill it. IVF asks a child to survive a lottery before they’re even given a chance at life, and 97.7% of them don’t. NaProTechnology asks something different of medicine: diagnose the problem, treat the cause, and let a body do what it was made to do, with no child ever paying the price for someone else’s infertility. Infertility is real, and it deserves real treatment. It just doesn’t need a body count to get there.

LifeNews Note: Samantha Deloach writes for Life Issues Institute.