re: IVF and “build a baby, inc” will become the moral issue of our time?

Right. The act just has to be "open to" the procreative element. Having sex while infertile or post-menopausal isn't a sin because you aren't intentionally preventing the act from achieving the end goal of procreation (see: Abraham and Sarah). Taking birth control or getting snipped would be different.

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f you don't understand this you don't trust in God. You just hope YOUR plans work out.

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Because God's will could never include or be realized through medical science.

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She had previously froze her eggs, and has turned to IVF and surrogacy to create or her own custom baby, because she “always wanted to be a mom, but wanted to do it on her own time”. She created a whole batch of embryos, but only chose one and decided she won’t use the others and will have them destroyed. She also picked her sperm donor out of a catalog, custom creating her child as if she was ordering a new appliance

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I’m ok with using IVF for married couples having trouble getting pregnant.

I’m not ok with the above. Perhaps there’s some reasonable middle ground between banning IVF and allowing the above

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IVF will be how couples play God and choose genes, etc.

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Why would IVF be necessary for this?

Why wouldn't non-IVF embryos permit this gene manipulation?

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We are given souls at conception. IVF freezes human souls and kills them more than abortion does.

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Most of those souls die from natural causes before they ever have the chance to become human.

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If you are not conceiving a child it’s because you are not meant to.

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This works for IVF, too. If God didn't want people to conceive with IVF, he could stop them.

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There isn’t one.

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Lady Gaga said they were born that way though

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To frame this as a pervasive “liberal feminist” mindset is disingenuous. Most Americans affirm that sex is biological and is determined at birth.

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You read something into that which does not exist, but it's understandable because they operate to different depths within the same sphere. I'm not talking about the attempt to create some rhetorical ground for the pro-LARP (ie: tranny) crowd, I'm talking about the core of liberal feminism which will swear up and down the only differences between men and women are the obvious ones (basically, body hair and genethliac). These are the types who will get defensive and angry when you bring up that men are physically stronger and faster than women on average.

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I find it interesting that you are framing postponing marriage and raising children as an inherently masculine quality.

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Not so much inherent as it is a generalization based on males being more likely to be more independence-minded than females.

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Coincidentally, I read a study yesterday that showed women who gave birth after 33 years of age have significantly longer telomeres as they age than women who had their children before turning 34. Breast cancer risks also decrease for women who have children after 33. So there are some benefits for women who postpone childbearing.

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As I mentioned in my other post, there's still a timer on women when dealing with procreation and my main point in it is that liberal feminists ignore that in order to tell women "see, you can be just like men". The further they get beyond their 30s, the greater the chance of complications with the pregnancy, birth defects, etc. even with frozen eggs.

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Just a suggestion, but why don't you mind your own business and let people live their own lives?

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It's a message board... if everyone minded their own business there'd be nothing to discuss and debate.

We had an unsuccessful IVF. It hit me several years later that the excess fertilizations were essentially 'aborted'. They weren't implanted in womb but still they were the building blocks of a human. They made it sound so sterile it wasn't until later pondering the concept that it hit me.

Other observations
IVF is like a casino, people only share their success stories, never the failures.

We went to a Seattle facility, lots of Lesbo couples in the waiting rooms. Were they looking to be implanted?

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As I mentioned in my other post, there's still a timer on women when dealing with procreation and my main point in it is that liberal feminists ignore that in order to tell women "see, you can be just like men". The further they get beyond their 30s, the greater the chance of complications with the pregnancy, birth defects, etc. even with frozen eggs.

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If you notice her wording, she's all about what's "best" for the woman- what may be best or not for the child is not even an afterthought.