IVF and surrogate babies have turned out just fine.
I sincerely hope you never find yourself in the way of verifying the utter, smug falsehood of that statement. It comes from the kind of "academic studies" intended to flatter commonplace prejudice. Until you have seen it, you have no idea what it means to have no known father or mother, no identity of your own, no place to stand. It was in the face of that utter misery that I decided to make peace with my own father, who is not an admirable parent; because however difficult our relation might be, it still gives me something that at least one person I know will never have, and will suffer all her life for. As for the physical facts, I believe I have read that IVF babies are at greater risk from an enormous amount of conditions as compared with the properly made article. But that, to me, is much less important than the fact that dozens of embryos are butchered to make one IVF baby, which achieves the impossible: something morally worse than abortion.
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Date: 2012-11-28 06:18 pm (UTC)I sincerely hope you never find yourself in the way of verifying the utter, smug falsehood of that statement. It comes from the kind of "academic studies" intended to flatter commonplace prejudice. Until you have seen it, you have no idea what it means to have no known father or mother, no identity of your own, no place to stand. It was in the face of that utter misery that I decided to make peace with my own father, who is not an admirable parent; because however difficult our relation might be, it still gives me something that at least one person I know will never have, and will suffer all her life for. As for the physical facts, I believe I have read that IVF babies are at greater risk from an enormous amount of conditions as compared with the properly made article. But that, to me, is much less important than the fact that dozens of embryos are butchered to make one IVF baby, which achieves the impossible: something morally worse than abortion.