Evita
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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It's a beautiful thing. Now, There are consequences, not just for the embryos destroyed or left frozen, but even for the children who survive and are actually born via IVF. This is fascinating. IVF can be used by parents to literally design their children to select for certain traits
But understand that even people who are trying to have a tall, high IQ child, they are engaging in eugenics, but so are the people who are creating embryos just for... infertility purposes, right? You're creating embryos and then implanting the one that has the most viability. So in that case, you are still selecting for human health and discarding the other.
So even if you are doing it for an infertility purpose, IVF is still very eugenic at its core, but it can also be much more explicitly eugenic where parents are saying, I want a child with brown hair and is
five feet around five feet taller so they can actually try to select for those traits which becomes even more explicitly dystopian although like i said it's all very eugenic and dystopian so right wired recently ran an article on parents who use ivf for more explicitly designer baby purposes and it's titled designer babies are teenagers now and some of them need therapy because of it
And this piece delves into how parents will screen embryos, meaning their children, for disease-causing genes, selecting their future baby's sex, and picking egg and sperm donors to influence their child's traits. One startup actually claims to help parents pick embryos with the highest predicted IQ.
Now today, a lot of those designer babies are teenagers, and some parents are discovering that their children feel like walking science experiments.
i kind of i kind of get it because they because they are walking science experiments and the parents feel that they didn't get what they paid for in many cases which is often an exorbitant amount of money when their child doesn't turn out exactly how they wanted maybe they aren't high high high iq maybe they aren't super tall maybe they don't have brown hair in other words ivf
is creating extremely disordered parent-child relationships. And Vice did a fascinating story on a Pennsylvania couple, Malcolm and Simone Collins, and their third child, Titan Evictus, who as an embryo was selected for implantation based on the results of an implantation genetic test.
So in other words, the parents chose to birth and raise Titan over dozens of his other siblings, all of their siblings' embryos, because the parents believed that Titan's genes were superior. Take a listen.
Okay, somebody left the comments, is this a lesbian couple? And the answer I believe is no. I think that that is, it's a man and a woman and they were just creeps and they wanted to, make sure that their child had the most optimized genes, like total freaks, total brave new world creepiness. Somebody else said in the comments, oh, I have a daughter who used IVF and they have a happy family.
And listen, I'm not saying that every family is disordered and horrible as a result of this, but there are always ethical concerns with IVF and any sort of process of this nature. And We have to address that. And sometimes, like I said, you might have a really positive experience with it. It turned out great.
There are a lot of cases of people who have very disordered relationships because of the way it sets up parent-child relationships. The parent buys a child and it optimizes the genes and the child feels like a walking science experiment and that they aren't living up to the standards that their parents bought them for. Their parents bought them for this. It's very, very wrong.
And of course, if you are somebody like Titan, can you imagine growing up that way? Can you imagine the kind of therapy you would need? Your parents paid tens of thousands of dollars to buy you for your pre-selected superior genes. There's a lot of pressure riding on that. Dozens of your siblings died all because you're number one. So of course this kid is gonna need therapy.
And growing up, my mom, she did not, just so everyone knows, she did not genetically test me as an embryo. And she used to always say, I'm here to get you into heaven, not Harvard. And it highlights this phrase that she used to tell all of us. Her priority wasn't high IQ or musically talented or super athletic.
And although those are blessings and wonderful gifts to have from God, my mom's goal for her children was to create good moral humans, because that's what God calls all parents to do when he blesses them with children. There's a spiritual component to this. It's the same problem with, I think, taking Ozempic instead of eating right and exercising more.
You are manipulating life at its origin with IVF, treating the symptoms of infertility rather than addressing the deeper natural complexities of human existence and attempting to play God by controlling the creation and selection of life. And it is... All right, let's talk about something that President Trump has done that is good, something that he is getting right, and that is the border.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops has been on the right side of IVF and designer babies and the wrong side of the border security issue. And the bishops, the Catholic bishops, are now suing the Trump administration for cutting refugee settlement funding. Now, what is refugee resettlement funding?
billions of taxpayer dollars on refugee housing, transportation, food, and even improving their credit scores. Now, per this lawsuit, the federal government has committed to providing $65 million to the USCCB for the immediate physical needs and integration of refugees into their
new communities but the lawsuit reads that now after refugees have already arrived and been placed in usccb's care the government is attempting to pull the rug out from under usccb's programs by halting funding so the bishops are saying you read to pay us you can't just stop now
Per a USCCB spokeswoman, we are urging the government, meaning we the bishops, to uphold its legal and moral obligations to refugees and to restore the necessary funding to ensure that faith-based and community organizations can continue this vital work that reflects our nation's values of compassion, justice, and hospitality. And we don't know how this is going to play out in court.
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