Are IVF babies knit together by God, too?

It's a question from Carly, Pastor John Hello.

How can a Christian explain to non-Christians that every child is a gift from God?

When some children are conceived medically through IVF and other fertility treatments,

I'm at a loss and I really want to be able to answer this question.

I believe all children are from God, but how do I answer this question?

I recently saw a story about a lesbian couple who conceived of a child through IVF.

The child was fertilized by donor sperm and implanted in one woman and then harvested

and implanted in the other woman to carry to term.

It's so unnatural, but I know that this child is meant to be here.

So Pastor John, how would you help Carly answer this dilemma?

Before I answer that question specifically and directly, let me just say a word about

the larger issue of in vitro fertilization and third-party assisted reproduction, surrogacy,

renting a womb, as is sometimes called, egg donation, sperm donation, and so on.

There is an entire global industry of baby making, which is shot through with unanswered

ethical and medical questions.

I think any Christian couple should be very careful, thoughtful, hesitant.

I would say hesitant to walk very far outside the natural processes God has put in place

for making babies.

Now I know we've gotten ourselves into a real dilemma with thousands of frozen embryos,

for example, waiting as it were for adoption.

I'm not opposed to that.

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