Looking at the Souls of Aborted Bodies
By Kevin Roeten (06/01/08)
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) doesn’t seem to be the panacea for birth for those wanting a baby. If this bursts your bubble, then maybe you’re uninformed. “In Vitro” specifically means in a test tube, or Petri dish.
Typically a number of eggs are ‘harvested’ from a woman, put in an artificial environment, fertilized by sperm, and then transferred back to the woman for gestation. Many say our action of creating life should be commended. Only problem is that we’re creating life from the deaths of multiple others.
According to the Atlanta Center for Reproductive Medicine (Woodstock, Ga.) 170,000 fertilized human embryos created in 1999 alone, died in the process of attempting to conceive a child via in vitro fertilization. And, IVF is much more common today than in 1999. From the Department of Health (Connolly/LifeNews), over 1 million embryonic children were killed in the UK in the past 14 years as “waste” embryos from IVF processes. The UK is only 20% of the US population.
But one must decide when life actually starts. Logic dictates when a living embryo has obtained the 46 necessary chromosomes for humanity, when an embryo receives “instructions” as to what sex she/he will be, what hair color they will have, the level of intelligence, the ability to be able to make independent decisions—all determine when “life” actually begins. And, almost all medical journals say exactly the same thing—this is when life starts when an egg has been fertilized.
Since over 85% of us realize there’s a soul included as well, it’s only logical to believe this is the time a soul is imbued in the growing embryo. When one thinks about it, any other time would be illogical. So when one hears that some IVF treatments actually use 40 fertilized eggs to produce one baby, one wonders what happened to those 39 other souls?
In IVF, only about 20% of the fertilized embryos are considered strong enough to be implanted in a woman. The rest are usually destroyed. The Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI) has publicly admitted that <10% of human embryos survive to birth in IVF.
Frozen embryos typically die after ten years. The “Snowflake” organization now has legal permission to embryo-adopt some of the waste embryos that doctors have judged not to be viable. This has led to the birth of 157 healthy babies.
OHRI determined a chemical was discovered that overcomes the artificially created embryos’ proneness to death. But this inherent instability pressures IVF practitioners to implant multiple embryos in the hopes that one will be born alive. If multiples do grow from IVF implantation, women are usually asked to undergo ‘reduction’ which involves killing one or more of the siblings.
In addition, Dr. Marjo Jarvelin (Imperial College of London) says the IVF mother is at higher risk with multiple implantations, and other clinical problems such as gestational toxemia, and Ovum Stimulation Syndrome (Caused by medication used to stimulate the ovaries during the IVF process, which can be “quite dangerous”.)
It seems God speaks to us many ways without having to thunder down from the sky. In the 6/21/07 issue of Human Reproduction, it was revealed on average a child conceived through IVF was in a hospital significantly more times (1.76 vs. 1.07) than a naturally conceived child. It was also shown that certain disease groups (infections, respiratory, inflammation) were more common among those born after IVF.
Newer findings show those conceived though IVF have a higher risk of deformity, cerebral palsy, higher mortality rates, and “ambiguous genitalia”. Generally during the seven year period studied, 61% of the singleton IVF children were hospitalized, versus 46% of the naturally conceived singletons. With two good ears, we can be so deaf to God.
When you count the number of people lost from the pill, the morning-after pill (both reject fertilized ovum with a uterus inhospitable for implantation), and the number of straight abortions in the whole of time, you get well over a billion souls that have been ‘wasted’ to date. Right after mortal death, you’d wonder how one feels when looking into the eyes of a billion souls?
Kevin Roeten
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