How Did We End Up with Hundreds of Thousands of Embryos Frozen in Limbo?

Christians accepted the contraceptive mentality.

By The Ruth Institute Published on September 6, 2025

In this episode of The Dr. J Show, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse welcomes Elizabeth Kirk, a distinguished scholar from the Catholic University of America. Together, they delve into the complexities of family law, the challenges of infertility, and the profound journey of adoption. Kirk shows how the logic of the contraceptive mentality divorced love from fertility and landed us in a dystopian world of frozen embryos and surrogate wombs for rent.