Emma Posey Waters

So today I'm sharing my story.

I'm Emma Waters and it's time to start rethinking fertility.

Funnily enough, the first time that I remember thinking about surrogacy and some of these reproductive technologies actually occurred when I was 17 years old.

There was a couple at our church who was actively involved in the youth ministry and really dear mentors and friends of mine.

I am so excited to dive into all of these issues and more with you.

So make sure to subscribe to this channel and follow along.

I'm Emma Waters.

Join me as we begin rethinking fertility.

And yeah, I can't remember the exact stat.

If people want to look it up, it's like Emma Waters at Heritage Foundation has written some reports about this and talked about the birth tourism thing.

Even if you think best case scenario where these are just men who couldn't find a wife because of their crazy, you know, one child policy and they aborted all their girls.

He couldn't find a wife.

Now look at how women are being commodified.

People want to act like women will just do this out of the goodness of their heart.

Well, when we, uh, this is Emma Waters as well.

2% of surrogacy contracts are altruistic, meaning it's of someone just doing it for a friend.

And that failure isn't just the failure in conceiving, but it's also the failure of protecting the dignity of everyone involved, the dignity of the man, the dignity of the woman, and most importantly, as you said, the dignity of those embryos who have just as much dignity in their frozen state, in their cryogenic state, as the child that's born in a successful IVF procedure.

I did an interview with a young policy analyst from the Heritage Foundation named Emma Waters, who has made this her main issue.

And this is a 28-year-old woman who is already a mother, married and pregnant, and has had a couple of kids and so on.

And in our conversation in our video, She spent a lot of that time talking about restorative reproductive medicine, which Catholic doctors have been talking about since Thomas Hilgers.

I mean, you know, for quite a while there have been Catholic doctors at the John Paul II Center out in Omaha, Nebraska and other places talking about, OK, we've got an infertility problem.

Let's look at what's going on with the woman's body and do everything we can to restore it.

And as Emma Waters put it when she and I conversed in a video interview, she said, you know, look, if you do IVF and you do it successfully, you still have an infertile couple.

If you correct the underlying problem, whether it's endometriosis, whether it's male factor infertility, which about half the time it's male factor infertility, if you correct those underlying factors, When you're done, they're fertile forever.