"Bling your frozen embryos into jewelry"-- wait, what?

The chilling trend--frozen embryo jewelry

Wait, what? Social media ads around the globe are pushing to further lucratize IVF, legalize murder, promote human desecration and glamorize pride through the wearing of tiny corpses. "Frozen kids" — leftover family members not making the IVF cut--no longer "needed" can be mummified into adornment trophies, such as jewelry and grim "keepsakes."

Thou shalt not kill

The Catholic Church and secular pro-life movements have condemned IVF-produced fertilized embryos, based on the 5th commandment. Nevertheless, there are now >1 million frozen embryos in the U.S. Since 2017, these IVF orphans--through no fault of their own--have created a moral dilemma leading to the demonic fad of "baby bling" jewelry.

Pro-Life leader, Lila Rose of Live Action recently re-exposed this as IVF "dystopian bling" on X.

Catholic ethicist Aaron Kheriaty likens this to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. “Behold, our Brave New World of opulent, debonair nihilism. Human embryos encased in jewelry — a shiny memento of having created human beings in a lab and then destroyed them,” Kheriaty writes on his X account.

Pope John Paul II in 1996, appealed to the "conscience of the world’s scientific authorities and in particular to doctors, that the production of human embryos be halted, taking into account that there seems to be no morally licit solution regarding the human destiny of the thousands and thousands of ‘frozen’ embryos which are and remain the subjects of essential rights and should therefore be protected by law as human persons."

30 pieces of silver

Blossom Keepsake, a U.K.-based company seems more keen on greed than death. Blossom's ads describe their service thusly: “POV: You’re an IVF mama who needs to decide what to do with leftover embryos.” Their website states:

“At the heart of our work is a deep respect for life and the incredible journey families take in creation. We specialize 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,” the description continues. It forgets to mention that a life was taken for a keepsake pendant or bodily bauble.

Why is IVF morally wrong?

The authors of the Declaration of Independence wrote that all Americans have the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Catholics believe that God intended procreation to be an act of intimacy within the sacrament of marriage. The purpose is to preserve the dignity of the child and provide a loving family that includes 1 mother and 1 father. In 2008, the Catholic Church's, Dignitas Personae affirms human embryos have a right to dignity, from conception to natural death. Verbiage clearly states that embryos cannot be treated as “mere laboratory material” because of dignity violations, which “belongs equally to every single human being, irrespective of his parents’ desires, social condition, educational formation, or level of physical development.”

USCCB order states that upon natural death of the faithful, they are handled with the dignity that befits a temple of the Holy Spirit. The final disposition of bodily remains or cremains is the burial in holy ground.

Sources

Bereavements and Funerals | USCCB

Embryo Jewelry? Catholics React to Frozen Children Encased in Necklaces and Rings| National Catholic Register

I Appeal to World's Scientific Authorities: Halt the Production of Human Embryos! | Pope JP2 EWTN

Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions | Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith