# Do any religious sects denounce in vitro fertilization? (IVF)

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**Created:** [February 24, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-religious-sects-denounce-in-vitro-fertilization-ivf/998013 "2024-02-24T03:04:52Z")\
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I agree this would be difficult to survey. As for religious views, [I found this roundup](https://ivf-worldwide.com/education/introduction/ivf-global-perspective-religious/ivf-christianity.html). My summary:

Catholic: Against

Eastern Orthodox Church: Against

Anglican: Ok, in the context of a married couple. No gamete or sperm donors.

Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Mormon, Presbyterian, Episcopal, United Church of Christ, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Mennonites: Accept IVF with spouse’s gametes and no embryo wastage.

Q: Is, “No embryo wastage”, something that can be guaranteed with the appropriate procedures? I’ve read about fertilizing one egg at a time and then implanting it. mjmartin explains current practice here, which seems a little at odds with this proposal:

> [@Alabama declares frozen embryos to be children](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-declares-frozen-embryos-to-be-children/997883/102):
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> After egg retrieval comes fertilization. As part of fertilization a number of poor quality embryos are created, and discarded. The doctors we used would only insert “A” or “A-” embryos if memory serves. Also, the number of quality embryos that are created are sometimes greater than a family would want inserted (ignoring that is how we ended up with Octomom a number of years ago). These are the embryos that the Alabama decision seems to prohibit from being destroyed.

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