Jennifer Lahl is the founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, a former pediatric critical care nurse and the creator of three documentaries on bioethics issues. Lahl, who describes herself as an orthodox Christian, was in D.C. on Monday for a screening of her latest film, “Anonymous Father’s Day.” In vitro fertilization is seen as such a godsend, giving children to couples who can’t conceive naturally. What are the main reasons you think society should be more skeptical of it?
IVF technology seemed at first to solve a problem. And it was a very real problem — I’m very sympathetic to people struggling with infertility and desperately wanting to have a baby. But I would submit that it created more problems than it solved. I think it’s important for people to understand, first, how highly inefficient IVF is and how much the technology fails. We do a heck of a lot more IVF cycles than we end up getting babies.
