We are on the doorstep of “Designer Babies”

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Shane Dawson and Ryland Adams’ Use of Surrogacy Showcases the Practice’s Grotesqueness

Ten other children were created only to be cast aside because they were not “optimal.”

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YouTubers Shane Dawson and Ryland Adams announced the birth of their sons, Jet and Max, on Sunday. Dawson is the biological father to one of the boys, while Adams is the biological father to the other. The mother of the children — whom they called “the egg donor” — is unknown. A separate woman carried and gave birth to the children for payment. To attain the sperm to create the children, Dawson and Adams each masturbated alone in a clinical room that offered them pornographic magazines and videos as well as a chair covered in plastic. As part of the process, an additional 10 embryos were created and subsequently cast aside — and possibly killed — in favor of the implantation of Jet and Max, who were described as “optimal” embryos.

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The use of surrogacy and in vitro fertilization is rapidly gaining traction. In 2022, the global surrogacy industry was valued at over $14 billion. The industry is predicted to experience 25 percent compound annual growth over the next decade to make it a $129 billion industry by 2032. In 2021, 413,000 in vitro fertilization cycles took place in the United States, from which 97,128 children were born.

However, those aren’t the only children involved in the process, as 12–15 embryos are typically produced in each in vitro treatment. E. Christian Brugger of the National Catholic Register recently calculated that this conservatively means that “more than two and a half million human beings” were “either killed or frozen in a single year in our country to fuel this sordid industry.” Fertility clinics, Brugger concluded, “are places of unspeakable evil, arguably worse than abortion facilities.”

The mass killing of embryos created through this process is, without a doubt, the worst aspect of in vitro fertilization and surrogacy. But the selling and buying of eggs, sperm, and women’s bodies — and the commodification of children, who are purposefully deprived of their biological parents — ought to awaken even pro-abortion advocates to their evils.

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