Lesbians waste our money on IVF

The BBC reports that lesbians and ‘influencers’ Megan and Whitney Bacon-Evans, known on social media as ‘Wegan’, have won an IVF alleged-discrimination case. NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board had said same-sex couples would have to pay for 12 rounds of In Vitro Fertilisation before getting it free.

Heterosexual couples just needed to be trying to conceive for two years. ‘Wegan’ said that was discrimination, and ‘inequality’.

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On Instagram, the girlie pair announced ‘victory’ to their 116,000 followers. They said: “Frimley ICB recognise the need to update their policy to remove the inequality between same-sex female couples and heterosexual couples.” So they have dropped their legal action. They have set no legal precedent, but you feel they have changed the cultural environment in the NHS. Indeed, you can have the sense they were pushing at an open door.

IVF for lesbians all over the Western world

All over the Western world lesbians are being given IVF. Australia legalised IVF for same-sex couples in 2002. Sweden allowed it in 2005. In 2021, France joined Belgium, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland and Norway in permitting lesbians to access fertility treatment.

In the United Kingdom, IVF became legal for same-sex couples in 2008, under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. The Roman Catholic church appears to have been the only major UK denomination which opposed it at the time.

In 2015, the BBC reported on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority which revealed the number of IVF cycles in Wales alone involving women in same sex relationships and single women in 2013 had doubled to nearly 300.

Consultant gynaecologist Peter Bowen-Simpkins, medical director at the London Women’s clinic, said they had seen a huge increase in same sex women seeking fertility treatment. About half the patients at its Cardiff clinic were lesbian couples.

But the big issue for the lesbians remains public funding. It is still not law that they must have it at taxpayers’ expense, but equally it isn’t law that they must pay for it themselves. The decision remains with each NHS trust.

Barren womb is never satisfied

Let us just step back a moment. We had deep misgivings about IVF from the start. The problem for Christians is that during the ‘in vitro’ (in a glass) method of fertilisation, more embryos are created than are needed. Only one or maybe two are implanted. So the rest of these tiny human beings are either deep-frozen or discarded there and then. The ones deep-frozen may ultimately be destroyed as well. That’s human life washed away.

But equally, the Bible’s book of Proverbs speaks right in to the human condition when it numbers the barren womb as the only human element among four things which are never satisfied:
Prov 30:15b There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: 16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire …

You may never feel the truth of that until you have been trying unsuccessfully for years to have children. Each time, hopes are raised only to be dashed. There is no end to the testimonies on social media of women, couples, who finally made it, left to encourage those yet to receive what the Bible describes as God’s blessing:
Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Sex education for lesbians

So given that IVF was originally brought in as a way to help couples struggling to conceive naturally to have the baby they have been longing for, how do lesbians fit in? What is wrong with Megan or Whitney’s reproductive parts?

I don’t know, but I am guessing, on the balance of probabilities, nothing at all. If either of them wants a baby, they need only do what has been done for millennia. If they don’t know that, then here’s some sex education for them, from the first book of the Bible:
Gen 16:4 And he (that’s Abraham) went in unto Hagar (that’s his wife Sarah’s maid), and she conceived:

That’s how it’s done, girls. So the only thing wrong with ‘Wegan’ is the psychological, or spiritual, disorder that prevents either of them forming a emotional attachment with a man such that it leads to conjugal activity.

That is why we read in the BBC’s 2015 article above that: “One in every ten IVF cycles was now using sperm from a ‘donor’ (That’s a stranger), and a third of all patients using ‘donor’ sperm are either single women or women in same sex relationships.”

AI out of the question?

If a cattle (usually a milk) farmer finds housing a bull too much aggravation, he makes a phone call and a man, nearly always a man, comes round with frozen straws filled with bull semen. The cow on heat (she is described as ‘bulling’) is restrained in a crush, that does not mean she is crushed, it’s just what the cage is called, and the AI guy squirts the defrosted semen up into the appropriate place.

It is not unknown for a woman in prison to have a tiny syringe smuggled in filled with her man’s seed, and then, ‘How did she become pregnant?’ But I guess artificial insemination for Wegan would mean a known father for the baby of whichever of them. Furthermore, it might not be keeping the moment of fertilisation sufficiently at arm’s length for their tender femme-lesbian emotions.

In addition, the father might demand his name be put on the child’s birth certificate. Because, as the Guardian reports here, another section of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 allowed a gay or lesbian couple to put both their names on the child’s birth certificate. Not for the first time, the politicians legislated a lie. So, in fifteen years’ time, when a son or a daughter asks, ‘Who’s my Daddy’ and consults their birth certificate, tough luck. You will never know.

Gays and lesbians are never ‘one flesh’

Normally in the Bible, conception occurs not between a man and his wife’s maid servant, Abraham and Jacob notwithstanding, but between husband and wife, as with the first family recorded here:
Gen 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived,

The Prophet Malachi (Mal 2:15) tells us bringing up children is a big part of what marriage is for.

The Lord Jesus said, as recorded in the Gospel of Mark:
Mark 10:6 From the beginning of creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: …

Megan and Whitney have reminded us that a ‘one flesh’ union is something a pair of lesbians can never achieve. Praise the Lord for that. But having explained the facts of life to the girls, here is another secret. The inequality between lesbians and proper couples, about which they complain, is God-given.

Why are taxpayers financing them?

By the grace of God it needs an egg from a woman and sperm from a man to make a baby. All either of them had to do was find a man and get married. IVF given to them by the NHS is a total waste of taxpayers’ money. Why exactly are the rest of us being forced into being financial partners in a fraud and a fancy? Why are we financing surgical intervention to satisfy an aesthetic conceit, or a social influencers’ fashion accessory?

Any government or NHS trust not shorn of all wisdom would tell them: ‘You want a baby? Great! Get married, proper married, not ‘gay-married’, and trust the Lord.

But that demands those who rule us be God-fearing and humble:
Prov 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

Prayer and Action

The Bible tells us to pray for our leaders:
1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

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Let us not forget, it is not ‘loving’ to go along with what everyone demands. Sometimes, the cause of righteousness, indeed of our love for God and our neighbour, made in his image, demands we stand up and say ‘Stop!’

So pray that IVF for gays and lesbians fully able to conceive naturally is brought to an end. At the very least, may the public stop paying for it.

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