WHO’s new infertility guidelines enshrine a “right to a child” for everyone—single, gay, trans—turning babies into products while ignoring the child’s welfare.
Newsroom (08/12/2025 Gaudium Press )The World Health Organization has quietly detonated one of the most radical anthropological bombs in its history. For the first time, its new guidelines on infertility proclaim that every individual—regardless of marital status or sexual orientation—possesses an enforceable “right” to become a parent. The desire for a child is no longer a hope; it is a claim society must satisfy through technology and law.
This is not medicine. This is ideology wearing a white coat.
The document’s core assertion is chilling in its clarity: “single people and couples have the right to decide the number, timing, and spacing of their births.” Translation: the child is no longer a gift received in love and responsibility. The child is now an obligation the rest of humanity owes to any adult who demands one.
From a perspective rooted in two millennia of Christian anthropology—and, frankly, in simple human decency—a child is not something we demand. A child is someone we welcome. Parenthood is a vocation, not a consumer option. The WHO has inverted this order with surgical precision, placing laboratory technique above human nature and adult preference above the dignity of the child.
Read the hundreds of pages and you will search in vain for the word that should be at the center of any discussion about reproduction: the child. The child is the great absentee. The text obsesses over adult “fertility preferences,” adult suffering, adult aspirations—but never once pauses to ask what is owed to the human being who will be manufactured, selected, frozen, transferred, or discarded if imperfect.
When the child becomes the object of a right, the child ceases to be a subject.
The justification for this revolution is “equity” . In its name, the WHO demands that states guarantee universal access to artificial reproduction—not just for infertile heterosexual couples, but for single individuals, same-sex couples, and transgender persons. A footnote piously instructs medical personnel to serve “a wide variety of people” without discrimination. The only solution offered is technological: more petri dishes, more surrogates, more embryos created and culled.
Infertility, once understood as a medical condition to be treated with compassion, is quietly reclassified as a mere lifestyle variant that society must “compensate” with industrial-scale baby production.
The historic rupture is now complete. Natural filiation—mother, father, child—is dethroned. Parentage is no longer something given; it is something engineered. Whether the resulting child grows up without a mother or without a father is a question the document refuses even to pose. The goal is simple and brutal: deliver a child to anyone who wants one, no questions asked, nature be damned.
This is not an outlier. The WHO is merely catching up with—and now globally legitimizing—a trend already entrenched in parts of the West, where law has bowed to culture and culture has bowed to the sovereign individual. What began as exceptional assistance for infertile married couples has metastasized into an open market in human life.
The child, once the weakest and most protected member of the human family, is reduced to a customizable product. The mystery of life yields to the cold logic of the laboratory.
The World Health Organization has declared that the desire of adults trumps the rights of children. History will not judge this document as progress. It will record it as the moment a supposedly scientific body abandoned science, abandoned nature, and abandoned the child.
- Raju Hasmukh with files form Infocatholica
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