The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.
The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.'
I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
One-third of all female infertility is the result of blocked fallopian tubes. If fertilization could be done in the lab and then the fertilized egg implanted in the womb, it would get around that problem. Millions of women who cannot have children would suddenly be able to.
Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.
I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.