IVF, Surrogacy, and Embryo Adoption (Stephanie Gray Connors) | Ep. 527
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Matt Fradd
4.8 โข 6.2K Ratings
๐๏ธ 4 June 2025
โฑ๏ธ 133 minutes
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Summary
Stephanie Gray Connors is an international speaker and author of On IVF, known for addressing complex bioethical issues like infertility, abortion, and assisted suicide. She has given over 1,000 presentations across North America and internationally, including at Yale, UC Berkeley, and Google headquarters. Stephanie has debated prominent abortion advocates such as Peter Singer and Dr. Fraser Fellows, and her audiences range from medical students to global conference attendees. She has authored multiple books, been featured in hundreds of media interviews, and holds a BA in Political Science from UBC and a certification in Health Care Ethics from the NCBC.
๐ On IVF by Stephanie Gray Connors: https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/products/on-ivf?srsltid=AfmBOoptVTxpvv5XkFRr3JZ86fxs1lkhpTQ-lgBk9OsVRu_XCrV_lboI
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| 0:00.0 | Pines with Aquinas is brought to you by Truthly, which is a groundbreaking Catholic AI app built to help you know, live and defend the Catholic faith. |
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| 0:16.3 | You look at abortion. You can pretend it's a virtuous, heroic thing, but everyone who's not insane goes, |
| 0:22.6 | yeah, that is it? And then you have to try to put lipstick on that pig. Right. But with IVF, it's like, |
| 0:30.1 | you see the lipstick first. It seems so good to want children. But how many babies died for that |
| 0:34.8 | child to come to be? 30 embryos are 30 human beings. |
| 0:38.9 | They are not human parts. |
| 0:40.2 | They are no longer, you don't just have egg, you don't just have sperm. |
| 0:43.7 | These are human persons. |
| 0:45.1 | These are individuals made in God's image. |
| 0:47.4 | They are unrepeatable. |
| 0:48.2 | They are irreplaceable. |
| 0:49.7 | And so this is where a very painful reality that couples have to come to terms with is that they |
| 0:57.0 | bear responsibility for the death of more pre-born children than someone who's had an abortion. |
| 1:03.0 | Because someone who's had an abortion once has ended one life. |
| 1:06.0 | God forgives, but nature won't. |
| 1:08.0 | And I think the thing that will make our culture open to hearing it |
| 1:12.5 | is the two by four directly to the face of nature not forgiving IVF and we're going to see |
| 1:18.2 | devastation throughout the land and at that point someone will say okay give me your argument |
| 1:24.3 | I'm open to hearing it now we want to be able to say if someone was conceived |
| 1:27.8 | in violence like rape, in lust like a hookup, or in technology via IVF, I can condemn those |
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