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Many people see this situation as a selfless gift by mother to son. She was able to give him the child he so desperately wanted. While that was most likely her sincere intention, seeing the situation this way is only possible because our culture has turned children into consumer products. The essential problem is not the strangeness of the situations themselves, but the attitude our culture has towards reproduction. If you want a child, you are owed a child, by whatever means necessary. In-vitro-fertilization, sperm/egg donors, surrogates, three-parent embryos, and more are now fairly common ways for people to obtain the child they desire.

From the point of view of an organization against abortion, the most troubling way that many of these ARTs work is that they require multiple human embryos to be created and most of these children die in the attempts to have one or two survive until birth. We create an extremely high risk situation in which we put the lives of these tiny human beings in peril-- and to make up for it we just make lots of them so at least some don’t die. Others are left in a frozen state indefinitely, until the parents or someone else decides to give them a chance at developing. Many don’t survive the thawing process.