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IVF Tore This Family Apart Before It Even Began

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03.06.2026

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IVF Tore This Family Apart Before It Even Began

The fertility industry promotes IVF as a safety net that gives people like Millender the option to delay or outsource childbearing, but it’s really a trap that is far from foolproof.

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In vitro fertilization (IVF), despite all of its functional, ethical, and moral pitfalls, is often pitched as a means to build a family. In 47-year-old Erin Millender’s case, IVF tore her family apart before it even began.

As the New York Times detailed last week, Millender is pregnant with her ex-husband’s child after she secretly implanted one of the couple’s IVF-created embryos before he filed an appeal requesting a court revisit a judgement that awarded his former wife custody of their frozen, unborn children. But the story doesn’t start there.

Deceived by the lies sold by fourth-wave feminism about prioritizing an Ivy League education and career over marriage and kids, Millender ignored her biological clock until 35 — her so-called “drop-dead date.” By then, the dating pool was diluted. Most of the men who wanted to settle down and raise a family were already doing so.

At 39, Millender finally found someone she thought fit her bill “as a man she could have a baby with, at least as a co-parent, if not as a husband.” Yet, it took several “clear ultimatums” to get the guy to take the........

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