Emma Waters

These tests, known as PGT and NIPT, screen for chromosomal abnormalities and a host of other medical complications to help parents achieve what every parent wants, a healthy baby.

The medical establishment encourages these tests as an unqualified good, but are they really? I'm Emma Waters, and it's time to start rethinking fertility.

Well, as you guys may have noticed, I am pregnant with our third daughter right now.

And going through pregnancy has brought up this topic of genetic screenings yet again.

Rather than someone who is receiving those children as a gift, and thinking about how you can be best equipped to steward the gift God has given you, including taking care of a child who may have a disease or a condition or some sort of chromosomal problem that would be different than what you expected.

As you can see, I'm very passionate about this topic, and I really hope that this episode has equipped you with the tools you need to navigate these tests from a Christian and pro-life worldview.

I'm Emma Waters.

Join me next time on Rethinking Fertility.

There's a whole group of women in DC who are doing stuff.

Emma Waters is just fantastic.

She's doing a lot of work on fertility, actually, and helping women understand surrogacy and IVF and But really digging into what authentic womanhood looks like.

She's great.

What we're doing is we're, again, that splintering of our ethics and that splintering of the Christian mind trying to hold two things in tension instead of saying, I'm going to be consistent across the board on this.

In your notes, I have a list of... by Emma Waters on IVF and Protestant denominations, how the churches have talked about this, how they have referenced this.

She also has a little detail on surrogacy, and I'm going to have all of these in the notes for you.

But what Really, what I want to move you towards as I conclude this episode, talked about so much information, what I want you to really consider, because I know you're asking like, well, what then, Felicia? Like, what are you saying I should do? Well, I'm not telling you to do anything except to think.

Um, and, and to defy a youth culture, to defy this idea that somehow, um, you have nothing to contribute.

I, I, um, uh, Emma Waters wrote an excellent book called Lead Like J.L., and in it she has a section on all the different stages of being a woman, including being a matriarch.

And I don't know if you're noticing this in your local church.

I think I am in mine.

What is infertility actually? Is it a disease with a single solution, or is it the symptom of underlying reproductive health conditions? That distinction changes everything because it means that the IVF-first, one-size-fits-all pipeline that we're pushing many couples toward may actually be holding them back from real treatments and healing from their infertility.

My name is Emma Waters, and it's time to start rethinking fertility.

[gentle music] Okay, friends, so I'm admittedly very excited to chat with you guys about what infertility is because for so long, people have actually been misled, and it's having dire consequences in the way that we've treated infertility and helped people have babies.

I actually did a really deep dive on Reddit, and I thought it would be useful to see what are the questions that other people have when it comes to their fertility and where are assumptions or misunderstandings actually playing into the kind of advice or standard care that we expect to receive.

And to make it clear, I have no affiliation with the RRM Academy.

It's just a resource that I have found that I think is excellent for diving into this issue, and I wanted to share it with you.

I'm Emma Waters.

Join me next time as we continue Rethinking Fertility.

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These children, Emma Waters at the Heritage Foundation has been involved in this as well, and it says that embryo adoption is not a treatment for infertility, but is an act of charity toward a child already in existence who is in need of a loving home.

The uncomfortable truth is that our loose approach to IVF has left millions of human embryos in indefinite storage, many of whom are destined to be discarded.

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