WHO Sacrifices Children’s Rights for Desires of Gay Adults

The World Health Organization just released its first-ever global guideline on infertility. On the surface, some of it sounds reasonable: eat better, exercise, quit smoking; all common-sense steps that can actually improve fertility.

 

Buried within the 140-page document and its accompanying statements, however, is a much darker agenda: the WHO is now calling for free or low-cost access to embryo-destroying in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for everyone, including single people and those in “same-sex or gender-diverse relationships.”

In other words, taxpayer-funded or insurance-subsidized IVF, no questions asked, no matter how many embryonic children are created and then discarded along the way.

 

The language throughout the report is soaked in some of the most controversial rhetoric the UN uses: “reproductive rights,” “gender equality,” and “empowerment.”

 

Dr. Pascale Allotey, a lead author, declared that infertility treatment “must be grounded in gender equality and reproductive rights” and that giving people the ability “to make informed choices about their reproductive lives” is “a matter of social justice.”

 

Translation: adults have a fundamental human right to a child—any way they can get one—even if that means intentionally severing that child from one or both biological parents and treating embryonic human beings as raw material to be manufactured, graded, frozen, discarded, or destroyed.

 

UN Expert Disagrees

 

In October 2025, Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Reem Alsalem, declared surrogacy a “system of violence, exploitation, and abuse,” urging global abolition.

Her report couldn’t have been more timely as evidence continues to mount showing how surrogates face violence, whilst children suffer identity trauma, this echoes violations of the most ratified UN document, the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

 

Additionally, UNICEF has come in line with Alsalem, prioritizing children’s right to origins and non-sale.

 

Children Sacrificed For Adult Fetishes

 

When global institutions like the WHO or the UN talk about agendas such as “expanding access” to surrogacy and donor conception, they always frame them as a triumph of adult autonomy and “reproductive justice.” The truth of the matter is this: every time a child is deliberately conceived through these technologies, that child is robbed, by design, of at least one, and often both, relationships with the mother and father who brought him or her into existence.

 

Most will say this is just a side effect when in reality, that is the business model.

 

Children have a natural, pre-political right to be known and loved by the two people whose bodies co-created them, and surrogacy intentionally severs the maternal bond at birth, whilst donor conception erases half (or all) of a child’s genetic identity before the child even draws breath.

 

In what world can this be considered compassionate? This is the state-sanctioned, adult-engineered orphaning of children to satisfy the desires of wealthier, more powerful adults.

 

Data from donor-conceived and surrogacy-born adults is now overwhelming: higher rates of depression, identity struggles, feelings of abandonment, and a gnawing sense that they were purchased rather than unconditionally welcomed. What a terrible and avoidable burden!

 

Until policymakers stop pretending that children are resilient widgets who will “turn out fine” and start prioritizing the child’s right to their own mother and father above every adult’s wish list, every new surrogacy contract is just another quiet act of violence against the weakest among us.

 

What the Child-Rights Advocates Are Saying

 

One of my favourite advocates and a woman I have learned so much from, Katy Faust, runs an exceptional organization called Them Before Us. Here is what she had to say in response to the WHO report:

 

“The WHO guideline treats infertility care primarily as an issue of access and equity, but it never addresses the child’s experience within IVF and related technologies… IVF is marketed as a compassionate solution for adults, yet it routinely imposes significant, lifelong losses on the resulting children.”

 

Surrogacy & IVF – They Belong In The Dustbin of History

 

Since 1978, well over 250 million embryonic children have likely been killed in the name of IVF and related technologies. Thus, expanding “access” to these practices means expanding that body count.

 

The longing for a child is one of the most profound and beautiful instincts God places in the human heart, yet even the deepest longing doesn’t create a right to what has become known as “designer babies.”

 

Why is this? Because a child is a unique person, a gift, never a possession we can manufacture, or purchase. Rather than pouring resources into technologies that treat tiny human beings as raw material to be engineered and discarded, we should be pouring them into truly restorative medicine that respects the integrity of the body and heals the underlying causes of infertility (because there are many such technologies!

 

Life, not commodification: that is the path that honors both the dignity of the child and the genuine good of parents.

 

Whilst the WHO promises a follow-up report on surrogacy, we already know that it will lead to the further normalization of a practice that turns women into rentable wombs and children into contract deliverables.

 

Final Thoughts…Because I Have A Lot 

 

True justice doesn’t demand that the strong get whatever they want at the expense of the weak. True justice begins by asking, “What does the child need?” and then refusing to sacrifice the littlest among us on the altar of adult desire.

 

This is the Christian answer; it is also, whether the WHO admits it or not, the truly human one.

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