Dance Mom alum JoJo Siwa is buying into commoditizing children at every front through surrogacy and in vitro fertilization (IVF). The 21-year-old dancer and singer went on the record to indirectly endorse the unregulated industries of IVF, sperm donors, and surrogacy to Frankenstein three separate pregnancies so she can have triplets.   

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According to a recent Cosmopolitan interview on July 15, Siwa unveiled her plan, stating, “Because I’m gay and I have to plan a pregnancy much different than a straight person. I actually want to take three eggs, fertilize three eggs, and have three surrogates. So technically, they’ll all be [from] the same batch, but they would all be born separately. Then maybe their little birthdays will land on different days, and they can be like triplets, but like, not.”  

So, before Gen Z cheers her on for trying to have her cake and eat it, there are societally damaging and morally significant consequences for Siwa’s 1984 fantasy.   

As Siwa excitedly shares her plans with her naive young fans, she unwittingly encourages her viewer base to partake in a corrupt practice that bankrupts preborn children from having a whole nuclear family. 

Additionally, the IVF industry creates embryonic children who will never feel the warmth and love of their mother. Instead, they’ll feel a medical freezer’s frozen and lonely isolation.   

A 2016 Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics study found that “During the years of analysis, the mean number of embryos transferred has progressively decreased leading to an overall significant decrease in Embryo Wastage rates (83.2 to 76.5%, p < 0.001) while the percentage of transfers leading to a live born increased (24.8 to 27.8%, p = 0.002).”   

In layman’s terms, roughly 80% of embryonic children produced fail to implant or result in a born child. The Washington Post also reported that embryonic children can be “frozen up to 10 years” or “discarded or donated, either to others wanting to have children or to medical science.”   

The same Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics study makes a crucial point: “It is projected that IVF utilization rates will continue to climb.”  

These claims are consistent with current data, as the CDC reports that “the provisional number of births for the United States in 2021 was 3,659,289, up 1% from 2020 and the first increase in the number of births since 2014.”  

So, we’re ramping up in this unethical practice, and Siwa, who is impressionable herself, is also impressing her fans to use unconventional methods and morally and ethically incorrect methods.   

Also climbing the ranks with IVF is surrogacy, which is “booming” in Ukraine because of its loose regulations and gaining steam in the United States. As contributing SFLA writer Anna Reynolds noted about several reports in 2022, “Parents seeking a surrogate typically travel to Ukraine once to undergo in vitro fertilization and sign a contract with a surrogacy agency. The biological children of the couple are then implanted in a potential surrogate, a process that often involves many losses and may take months or years to successfully result in a viable pregnancy.”  

Ukraine’s loosely regulated surrogacy industry attracts aspiring parents who want children on the cheap as reported by The New York Times: 

“The country’s favorable laws — biological parents are listed on the baby’s birth certificate — and affordable prices, generally around $40,000, have attracted many aspiring parents. It is estimated to be one of the most popular destinations for surrogacy in the world with more than a dozen agencies specializing in the sparsely regulated practice. One agency alone arranges around 1,000 surrogate births each year.”  

America’s surrogacy industry isn’t far behind. A CATO Institute paper in December 2023 titled “Defending Gestational Surrogacy: Addressing Misconceptions and Criticisms” notes the doubling of surrogacy in over a decade, stating that “Gestational surrogacy has become more common as the technology has improved, with GC embryo transfer cycles comprising 4.7 percent of all embryo transfer cycles in 2020, up from 2.2 percent in 2011.”   

This same paper also claims that the exploitation of women through surrogacy is simply not true, claiming it is voluntary. While that may be true, are surrogates well-informed about the emotional and physical risks?   

A 2017 Institute of Family Studies article cites a British Journal of Medicine (BJM) study that claims the consequences far outweigh the benefits.   

“Multiple births come with an increased risk of Caesarian sections and longer hospital stays,” writes the Institute of Family Studies. “As well as gestational diabetes, fetal growth restriction, pre-eclampsia, and premature birth. The drug, Lupron, which is used to transfer embryos, has also been documented to put surrogate women at risk for increased intracranial pressure.”  

To note, intracranial pressure is more than a headache. It can also lead to spinal and brain injuries, all according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. That’s not even going into detail about the other potential medical dangers or the emotional pain of having a baby grown inside a woman’s body ripped away from her.   

So, does Siwa know all of this? Probably not.   

She may be an adult, but she views children like a child: a toy or widget to play with.   

It can’t be overstated how much more valuable children are than toys. They’re human beings with souls who are better off with a father and mother. Whether she knows it or not, her plans encourage others to damage children and surrogate mothers.   

It’s time to call it what it is: immoral and selfish.   READ NEXT: How Paris Hilton Has Horrifically Frozen 20 Sons Through IVF “Waiting For a Girl”