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IVF is contested as life-giving versus murder

In vitro fertilization, recognized with a 2010 Nobel Prize after producing millions of children, is morally contested because multiple embryos are created and not all used; those who regard the embryo as a living person view IVF as a massacre, while others view it as life-giving, so a transaction occurring millions of times draws both intense praise and condemnation.

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Speaker

Alvin Roth

Evidence Quote

if you think that the embryo is a living person, then you think of IVF as committing a massacre. So on the one hand, there are people who think of in vitro fertilization as life-giving... And on the other hand, there are people who think it's murder.

Source

353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested MarketsSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:30:11 AM

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