The Devastation of Leftover Embryos

Before you do IVF, read this.

If I believe life begins at conception, and I do, there are 9 lives sitting on ice in a freezer that bear my DNA.

When I began the process of IVF, I was desperate to become a mother. Infertility is not part of God’s design, but so it has become part of the fabric of human existence since the Fall.

I’d been a vocal, pro-life advocate since elementary school, but IVF felt like the opposite of abortion. It was life creation, not destruction.

And yet, now we know that more than a million tiny, conceived lives exist in medical freezers and most of them will never see the light of day.

I wish I’d had someone to help me back in 2014, when I started the journey toward motherhood via IVF. Today, I have two healthy, amazing children than were conceived from this decision and I am everyday grateful for this.

However, I have deep anguish at the lives that I haven’t carried, the siblings of my children that they will never meet. The babies I will never know, whose eyes I will not see, whose bodies…