Whose baby? The troubling consequences of the new 'right to reproduce'

Vol. 11, No. 20

October 2, 2026

On the cover: If we could pay to choose the kind of child we wanted, when we wanted, and however we wanted, would we? That’s the premise of the growing “right to children” movement, which borrows pro-life language to defend practices like IVF and egg-freezing from the concerns of those who practice “fertility discrimination.” On Page 10, bioethics expert Theresa Farnan details the trend’s troubling implications and what a Catholic response should sound like.