(LifeSiteNews) — On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown was born in Oldham, England. It was a fateful moment. Known as the first “test-tube baby,” Brown was the first child conceived and born through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Her arrival marked the birth of the reproductive technology industry, in which millions of human beings have been created in petri dishes at the behest of paying customers. The vast majority of these children perish or remain in storage freezers.
As Lila Rose of Live Action pointed out recently, a mere “7% of embryos created via IVF will result in a live birth,” and “93% of these lives are frozen indefinitely, miscarried, or aborted.” This staggering human cost means that the reproductive technology industry, in its pursuit of creating live children, actually ends more lives than the abortion industry. Each child born via IVF represents a host of siblings who died or were killed in the process. Despite a constant conveyor belt of scandals, these grim facts are rarely discussed or emphasized.
This reality is essential context for a June 26 report by the BBC. According to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), “IVF births made up more than 3% of births in the UK in 2023 – a figure roughly equivalent to one child in every classroom,” with 20,700 babies born via IVF, a steep increase from 8,700 in 2000. According to the BBC, an increase in “single patient and female same sex couples opting for the [procedure] has contributed to the rise,” and the number of older clients has also increased.
In fact, the NHS – which funds IVF in some circumstances, although there has been a decrease from 35 percent in 2019 to 27 percent in 2023 – actually has a website offering advice on “Ways to become a parent if you’re LGBT+.” In 2023, an NHS group changed its rules on access to IVF for homosexual and gender-confused individuals after a landmark legal case in which two lesbians mounted a challenge demanding that they be treated similarly to heterosexual couples.
According to the HFEA, 52,400 people had over 77,500 IVF cycles at UK facilities, with IVF births “making up a higher proportion of UK births over time.” The BBC noted that of clients “aged between 40 and 44, 11% of births were a result of IVF compared with 4% in 2000,” with IVF being used increasingly by older women seeking to have children later in life. “The big increase, although still quite small numbers, has been in female same sex couples and single patients – those have really driven some big rises in [the] numbers of people seeking [IVF],” HFEA’s Clare Ettinghausen told the BBC.
Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets like the BBC have been pushing for the expanded availability of IVF particularly for homosexuals, with one report referring to the expensive process many go through as a “gay tax.” Of course, the reality is that this “tax” is not being imposed by the healthcare system or reproductive industry (which is in any case happy to take their money) but by nature itself. Homosexual couples cannot produce children naturally. That is not a “tax.” This fact, of course, is ignored.
The truth, as I have noted many times in this space, is that the IVF industry is a horror show – and it is getting worse all the time. One California startup called “Bootstrap Bio” is launching a “Superbabies” company to produce genetically modified children for paying customers. Although some scientific societies are calling for a moratorium on such projects, there is already a large market for custom-made babies, and the IVF industry groomed our society to see children as commodities that can be artificially created and purchased. The dystopia we have created will get much, much darker than it already is unless we reverse course, and very soon.
