Is in vitro fertilization ethical? Is there a morally permissible way for Christians to practice it?

Today my co-host and I Scott Ray are going to have a conversation about this and Scott one of the reasons I want to do this is I saw arguments for in vitro fertilization online

So arguments against it but no one taking the time to walk through what is it what are the concerns and help people

understand what's at stake from a biblical perspective so we're going to make this

a part of the Think Vivically podcast and dive in you ready to go I am I mean hopefully we can have some

nuance and appreciate some of the complexities here too that would be the idea now that's that

maybe a helpful place to start with is just what is in vitro fertilization.

Okay. In vitro is simply Latin for in glass and fertilization taking place in

glass in a Petri dish where we'll assume here that it's gamete of husband and wife because you can

have donors you can have surrogates but we'll keep them off the table for now for simplicity

to say.

The woman is given high-powered hormones that enable her to release as many eggs as possible in one cycle.

The average is, I say normally somewhere between 8 and 15,

although some women, it's a bust,

some women go way over that.

So it's just, but that's sort of the average and sperm samples taken from the husband and they put the two put the eggs of sperm together in a Petri dish and see how many and you know how many you know pick up a dance partner.

And so usually there's a decent amount of attrition.

Not every egg fertilizes successfully.

In the same way that not every egg fertilizes successfully

in the body.

So we'll say, let's just say we get 10 eggs that we harvest and 5 successfully fertilize.

Then they will within a pretty short period of time

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