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There’s a disturbing jewelry trend that found a way to suck MORE profits and more death out of the IVF process. A U.K.-based company called Blossom Keepsake is offering jewelry made with the “leftover” human beings created in IVF that parents no longer want or need. 

Remember these numbers, which we reviewed in Episode 35 of my podcast: 

The average age a woman does IVF is 36, it takes 3 rounds for her to have a 50/50 shot at a live birth, and in that process she will spend tens of thousands of dollars (if not more), and more than 20 of her embryonic children will have died or been frozen. Maybe she does have a live baby in her arms after three rounds of IVF. Maybe she doesn’t. But this jewelry company is ready to take more of her money and turn her frozen embryos into “keepsakes.” 

And the language on the company’s website really clarifies the commodification of children that is happening in IVF: “We specialise in crafting unique and meaningful keepsakes using unused IVF embryos. Our mission is to offer families a beautiful way to honour this chapter of their story — by transforming these embryos into timeless pieces that can be cherished forever.”

…“Unused IVF embryos.” 

…Transforming human beings into “timeless pieces”? 

This jewelry company is clarifying something that goes unsaid in the IVF industry: It views children – real, live, human children – as accessories for parents. Can’t have a baby? No problem, we’ll just make some in a lab and hope one of them “sticks.” Have leftover babies? No problem, we’ll just turn them into “timeless pieces” that you can cherish like china you inherited from your grandma. 

IVF “jewelry” is a logical extension of the way the IVF industry itself views children. 

The company claims that “Each embryo is treated with utmost care, dignity, and respect” by their “experienced team of artisans.” 

I’d just like to know which part is dignified, caring, or respectful:

The part where they take a live child out of a freezer and thaw them so that he or she dies? 

The part where the child is stuffed into a package, thrown onto a truck, and shipped to a shop? 

The part where his or her tiny body is stuffed into a ring? 

The part his or her remains are flashed at friends and family encased in sparkly jewelry?

These “leftover” babies are the collateral damage of an industry that has procreation completely backwards. We are supposed to sacrifice our own wants and needs for our children, not the other way around. We don’t have a right to create them, discard them, freeze them, or stuff them into jewelry. We have obligations to our children that are so much greater. 

I encourage you to resolve today not to be silent about IVF. You and I speaking up with compassion and knowledge is the most powerful thing we can do! 

Kristan Hawkins is the President of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action. Subscribe to The Kristan Hawkins Show HERE.