Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting

l media post depicting the suffering of men whose children have been aborted has gone viral on social media this week. The July 7 post by a British pro-life medical doctor, Calum Miller, has amassed over 20 million views on X. The image he shared shows a simple comic with four pictures. In the first picture, a little boy is sitting on a swing, in the second, he is playing with his father, but the boy disappears in the third with only a faint silhouette of him remaining. In the fourth picture, the mother, seemingly dressed in business clothes and coming home from work, tells the father: “Let him go, the abortion was months ago.”

A startup called Cofertility is taking a coercive approach toward women interested in preserving their future fertility through egg freezing. Gamete donation ads tell women they can make money while “helping others” and by “giving the gift of life.” But these women are not helping infertile people to have their own children, they are helping infertile people to have the egg donors’ children. Egg donation ads distract women from the fact that they are selling genetic material that will become their future biological children.

The problem of egg freezing cannot be solved by safer methods or better policies. Beyond the physical and financial costs, there is a more insidious myth at work—one that speaks to our deepest assumptions about time, control, and what gives life meaning.