Kirk's Moral Case Against IVF, Explained to Twins Born From It

Showing 6 In vitro fertilization (IVF) videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

In vitro fertilization drew one of Charlie Kirk's more personally difficult positions, tested directly when twin sisters Paige and Alex, both conceived through IVF, asked him why he opposed the very process responsible for their lives. Kirk navigated the exchange by separating celebration of the resulting children, whom he called clear evidence that IVF families were often deeply pro-life in outlook, from concern about how the procedure was typically practiced, specifically the creation of multiple embryos with the expectation that some would be discarded or kept frozen indefinitely rather than implanted. He argued that practice amounted to treating nascent human life as a byproduct of reproductive planning rather than as an end in itself, language he said bordered on eugenics given the deliberate selection involved, while stopping short of calling for IVF to be made illegal. Kirk connected the broader IVF conversation to what he described as an industry with a financial incentive in infertility, suggesting hormonal birth control and environmental factors deserved more scrutiny as underlying causes, and offered pro-life couples considering the procedure a distinction between ethically defensible approaches, such as fertilizing only embryos intended for implantation, and the more common practice he found morally troubling.