Back to the serious topics, I think you’ve just signed yourself up for artificial wombs because one of the areas where IVF has fallen short (technologically speaking) is in helping women with fetus implantion (either creating or maintaining) problems. IVF does nothing to help those women. IVF helps with low sperm counts, egg release problems, “hostile” to sperm wombs, etc.. It doesn’t help women who miscarriage all the time. Artificial wombs will very likely give women with those problems a mechanism to raise a child that is biologically theirs.

I could give a really long answer for the why I have problems with IVF and other similar medical technologies. I have no bone against people who can’t conceive naturally. People who are naturally infertile were created that way by God and it is His will they they not have children, not mine. Just like God didn’t make me very tall and doesn’t want me to get stints in my legs (i.e. sidestep the natural growing process) so that I can be taller, he doesn’t want people to sidestep the life creation process to have children. He also doesn’t want them to destroy dozens of lives (which IVF requires as it requires fertilizing 30-40 eggs, picking the 10 or so best ones, attempting to implant them all, and aborting all but one or two of the ones that actually do implant) so that one or two can be born.

As you point out, there is much good that can be done with a childless life (like adopting or serving the poor). God is calling those people to serve in some other way besides having their own children. People need to be less self centered and more concerned with serving others.

There is much more I can say about this to clarify and complete the statement. If you’ll grant me there are a lot of implications and therefore depth including caveats to the previous statements, I’ll leave it with that.

Now all joking aside, why do you feel it’s worse for a couple who can’t conceive a child naturally to seek medical help. What bone do you have against them?

Whereas, I’ve always felt it was better to adopt then spend money to conceive if you can’t naturally. There are plenty of good causes that the money could be used for, and there are plenty of children worldwide who could use a good house.

Despite the fact you know how incredible that bond is between a child and their biological parents, you seem to want to deny someone that joy.
The choice to adopt is a very difficult one, one that a lot of people don’t want to make because of all the media coverage regarding children seeking out their birth parents and the pain that causes (and vice versa the cleaned up crack mom who wants her children back).

I do agree that the idea of artifical wombs is a little too sci-fi for my liking, and I am against that. I can’t possibly see anyone who would go that route for any reason other than a superficial one. Granted, I wouldn’t mind being corrected if someone can come up with a reason that fits the mold (just because I can’t see a reason doesn’t mean someone else can’t).