It seems as though most people who are against IVF are under misunderstandings of the procedures.
IVF does not make you pregnant. It doesn't take the conception out of God's hands any more than timing your cycles does. Yes, it gives you a fertilized egg in your body. But it just floats around in there after they put it in. IVF does not help with implanting the egg. It does not help with actually keeping the egg in there. It does not ever guarantee pregnancy. With a normal pregnancy when you time your cycles, many times you DO fertilize the egg. But that does not mean you'll get pregnant. A fertilized egg has to find it's way to the right place, has to implant on your lining. If it doesn't, you don't get pregnant and you get your period. A fertilized egg does not mean you're pregnant. It only helps sperm to meet egg for those who can't do it themselves.
Once you do get pregnant (if you do), IVF does not assist with keeping you pregnant. IVF's job is done. Staying pregnant is up to your body and God, just like any other pregnancy.
Oh, and guess what? Every article that is against IVF for religious purposes love to say that the eggs they don't implant in your cycle get washed down the sink. Um, nope! Those eggs are HARD to get. You need surgery to get them. Some eggs don't make it to fertilization. Those that do, some get implanted. The ones left over? They usually get frozen, because no one wants to put all their eggs in one basket and just assume they'll get pregnant on the first cycle. Those frozen eggs are then thawed the next month (and depending on how many you have) again the cycles after to try and get pregnant.
What if you get pregnant on your first try and you're done? What happens to those eggs then? Well, then you have the wonderful option of helping other infertile couples, which is the choice that I find the majority of people do. They donate the eggs they don't need to give hope to those who are also desperate to have babies, but don't have the ability to provide their own eggs or sperm.
Eggs getting washed down the sink? Doesn't really happen. Maybe if the couple is really insistent that they don't want any donations and don't want to use their eggs or save them for any reason, but hey, there's plenty of women out there that choose to get pregnant the normal way and then abort their babies. Why is the IVF person more at fault than the one who is able to get pregnant easily and then just kills her beating heart baby? Why should all IVF be ruled out simply because there are some that don't use their eggs? That's like saying all pregnancies should be banned because some choose abortion. It doesn't make sense.
The reason so many people say that it's against God to do IVF is because they say God's hand is taken out of it and the fertilized eggs are then killed, and both of those things are simply not true. God is still needed in getting pregnant with IVF just as much as a natural conception and the Christian women I see getting IVF done are not killing any of their eggs, but blessing others (or just using them, as most people don't seem to understand how many eggs it can take to get pregnant, how the ovary does not release a hundred eggs in a go around, how not all eggs collected mature enough to survive even getting fertilized, and those that are released aren't always healthy, mature eggs - just like when you ovulate naturally any month, sometimes those eggs are not healthy and mature!)
I have yet to see anyone who is well informed on how IVF works and all of the options available to IVF still argue that it's against God. On the contrary, those who are knowledgeable seem to think otherwise. I would at least respect arguments much more if they had at least the basic understanding represented here (and this only a brief summary of what there is to know before speaking out against it.)
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