In a world where technology increasingly encroaches on God’s design, we must ask a hard question:
Christian, What is the True Cost of In Vitro Fertilization?
Recently, an executive order titled “Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization” was issued by President Trump on February 18, 2025, aiming to ease regulatory burdens and reduce the cost of IVF for American families. While the order promises increased access and affordability for couples struggling with infertility, the Virginia Christian Alliance (VCA) warns that Christians must be fully informed and look deeper into what is behind the scenes of the IVF industry. This industry profits from the commodification of life and, in many cases, its destruction.
IVF has evolved beyond its original intent to help infertile married couples and has expanded to serve singles, same-sex couples, and those simply desiring a child outside of the traditional family unit. This reality calls for deep biblical reflection and prayer before considering IVF.
We invite our readers to watch and reflect on the Living Waters YouTube Channel video exposing these concerns:
The Build-A-Baby Business Versus God’s Design
Mark Spence of Living Waters Ministries exposes IVF as a “build-a-baby” process—an industry where sperm and eggs are collected, combined, and used to create embryos. Yet, the dark secret lies in what happens to the surplus embryos. These extra-human lives—often graded, selectively reduced, frozen indefinitely, or discarded—are treated as disposable commodities. This transactional approach starkly contrasts with the Bible’s depiction of procreation as a sacred, divinely ordained process between a husband and wife.
While Trump’s executive order seeks to make IVF more accessible by lowering costs and reducing regulatory hurdles, the VCA contends that such policies inadvertently endorse a practice that devalues life. For Christians, every embryo is a unique creation, made in God’s image, and its disposal or commercialization runs counter to the “God first” principle that must govern all ethical decisions.
God’s Blueprint for Life and the Natural Miracle
The Bible tells the stories of barren women like Sarah (Genesis 21:1-3) and Hannah (1 Samuel 1:20), whose miraculous pregnancies underscore that life is not a human-manufactured product but a sovereign gift from God. When God intervenes, life is established according to His will, not human technological prowess. True parenthood emerges from the intimate, God-ordained union of a man and a woman—a process that reflects God’s own creative work.
By contrast, IVF abstracts the sacred act of creation. By reducing conception to a laboratory procedure, it strips away the divine mystery and sanctity that should accompany the creation of life. The commodification of embryos—where surplus embryos are either discarded or marketed—stands as a stark reminder that modern reproductive technologies, bolstered by governmental policy, risk undermining God’s perfect design.
VCA’s Strong Opposition to the Expansion of IVF
The Virginia Christian Alliance firmly opposes the broadening of IVF availability as outlined in the executive order. We acknowledge the deep longing of many couples to have children, but IVF has been co-opted by individuals and groups outside God’s intended design for family. In recent years, it has expanded beyond helping infertile couples, now being used by single men and women, as well as homosexual and lesbian couples who seek children outside of the biblical model of marriage. Children deserve to be raised by both their mother and father in a God-ordained family structure.
Our opposition is based on the following convictions:
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Life Is Sacred: Life begins at conception, and every embryo is a divine creation deserving of protection. No government policy should sanction practices that treat potential life as a disposable resource.
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God’s Sovereignty Over Life: The Bible affirms that fertility is a miracle orchestrated by God. Trusting in human technological solutions for conception undermines God’s authority as the Creator of life.
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Moral and Ethical Implications: By easing regulations and lowering costs for IVF, the government risks endorsing a practice that commodifies human life and divorces the miracle of conception from its God-ordained context.
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The Expansion of IVF Beyond Infertile Couples: IVF has increasingly been used by single individuals and same-sex couples—groups for whom IVF was never originally intended. The reality that children are being created outside of God’s design for marriage further highlights the moral consequences of normalizing IVF.
Trump’s executive order, while well-intentioned in addressing infertility challenges, inadvertently prioritizes technological convenience over the sacred nature of life. For Christian couples who hold a “God first” worldview, embracing IVF in its current form represents a compromise—a concession to secular ethics that runs counter to the timeless biblical truth that life is a sacred gift.
In Conclusion
Mark Spence’s message, combined with the recent executive order, presents Christians with a critical challenge:
How do we reconcile the desire to help struggling couples with infertility while upholding the sanctity of life?
The dark secret behind IVF remains unchanged—when human life is reduced to a series of lab procedures and commodified in the process, it departs from God’s natural order.
As believers, we must stand firm in our conviction that true parenthood and the miracle of life are gifts from God, not products manufactured in a lab. Let us prioritize God’s blueprint for life over policies that risk diluting the divine sanctity of creation. In doing so, we remain true to our “God first” commitment and honor every human life’s sacredness from conception.
