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From Gift to Product: The Logic of IVF, Abortion, Eugenics, and Transhumanism

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Many people treat IVF, abortion, eugenics, and transhumanism as separate moral debates. IVF is often presented as a compassionate response to infertility. Abortion is discussed in terms of autonomy or rights. Eugenics belongs, we are told, to a dark chapter of the twentieth century. Transhumanism sounds like futuristic speculation about enhancement, artificial wombs, or redesigning the human species.

But these are not separate moral worlds. They are connected. They arise from a common way of imagining the human person, freedom, the body, technology, and even the meaning of generation itself. At the center of all of them lies one question: Is human life a gift to be received, or a project to be managed?

 
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In IVF, many embryos are created and only a few are implanted. The others are destroyed or
kept frozen in case of a desire to use them in the future.

Also, IVF is also used in surrogacy for gay people. I knew a woman who was paid well and
gave birth to two babies which she conceived through IVF and then gave the babies to the
gay couple, both male couples. What happened to the remaining embryos is unknown to me.
 
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