By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An Australian researcher is bragging that advances in artificial means of reproduction such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) may soon make the idea of having sex in order to produce children obsolete.
According to London’s MailOnline, John Yovich, of teh PIVET Medical Clinic in Perth, Australia, co-author of the new study, “Embryo culture: can we perform better than Nature?” says science will soon become more efficient at producing babies than human reproduction.
“Natural human reproduction is at best a fairly inefficient process,” said Yovich, who claims that because IVF is 100 times more “efficient” than natural reproduction in cattle, the same may soon be possible for human beings.
Yovich believes the test-tube baby industry is already well on its way to surpassing natural human reproduction. Even young adults have no more than a one-in-four chance every month of reproducing through sex, he says, and among those over 35, this falls to one in ten.
IVF can make it much easier to conceive, especially for those couples who delayed childbearing to pursue a career who will find conceiving in a laboratory much more effective than trying to a baby naturally at that age.
“Within the next five to ten years, couples approaching 40 will assess the IVF industry first when they want to have a baby,” he said.
IVF has a long way to go, however, as it only has a 50 per cent success rate even among the most healthy couples.
Vicki Thorn, founder and executive of Project Rachel and the National Office of Post Abortion Healing and Reconciliation, and an expert on the negative effects of in-vitro fertilization, told LifeSiteNews that scientists pushing for IVF are dangerously ignorant of the repercussions such violence against nature is bound to have.
“We’re doing end-runs on naturally occurring events,” Thorn said.
She described a number of steps in the natural process of forming a child that are absent from the unnatural world of the Petri dish, such as depriving the developing child of the natural hormonal chemistry within a woman’s body which helps it to thrive.
“It’s exciting – look what we can do, we can play God,” she said. “But, the serious question is: are we going to be producing totally different kinds of people? And yes, we are. These are children who did not have the benefit of the chemistry of being conceived in the womb as nature intended it to happen.”
This could be one of the reasons for the many health problems associated with children conceived via IVF. For instance, once study of IVF young adults published in the February 2010 issue of Fertility and Sterility found that such individuals were up to 11 times more likely to be diagnosed with certain psychological disorders such as clinical depression and attention deficit disorder, and often reported other maladies such as vision problems, asthma, and allergies, LifeSite reports.
“It’s nice that doctors want to play God, but this is a serious issue. We’re putting children at risk,” Thorn said.
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