Gen Z Goes to Church, But IVF Tech Runs Wild

Church is growing, AI is making babies, and the womb trade is heating up—what does this all mean for kids?

The world is loud with stories about adult desires, but this week’s headlines tell a deeper tale—one where children’s rights and needs hang in the balance. In this edition of Good, Bad, & Interesting, we celebrate a quiet revival—where Gen Z is finding faith and community.

But we also raise the alarm over the increasing mechanization (and commodification) of reproduction, from robot-run IVF to embryo mix-ups. And in the name of sisterly love, a womb is transplanted, but the bigger ethical questions loom large.

The Quiet Revival: Gen Z Is Filling the Pews

Against every tired stereotype, Gen Z is not abandoning faith—they’re running toward it. A new study from the Bible Society reveals that church attendance in England and Wales has risen by 50% in just six years, with the biggest surge among young adults. Especially young men.

Back in 2018, only 4% of 18–24-year-olds said they attended church monthly. Today, that number is 16%—with 21% of young men now regularly attending church.

“These are striking findings that completely reverse the widely held assumption that the Church in England and Wales is in terminal decline.” – Dr. Rhiannon McAleer

But it’s not just about numbers. Churchgoers are more likely to:

• Read the Bible regularly

• Volunteer and give to charity

• Experience higher life satisfaction

• Report lower stress and anxiety

In a world starving for meaning and community, young people are turning to something eternal—and finding life.

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Baby-Making by Robot: IVF Goes Full Machine Mode

A baby has been born through a process where almost every step of IVF was handled by AI and robotics.

• An AI model picks the “healthiest” sperm

• The machine zaps sperm tails to immobilize them

• Then injects sperm into eggs

That’s right—conception via computer.

Let’s be clear: the fact that sperm “isn’t healthy enough to do this on their own” is not a cue for robots to take over human reproduction. It’s a cue to ask deeper questions about why fertility is collapsing—and what that means for children.

The machine made the baby. But who protects the baby from the machine?

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Another IVF Clinic, Another Catastrophic Mix-Up

Monash IVF just confessed to a devastating failure: a woman likely gave birth to another couple’s baby because of a lab mix-up.

Let that sink in.

She went through pregnancy and birth… and the child wasn’t biologically hers.

These aren’t random accidents. They’re systemic risks baked into an industry that treats human conception like a technician’s project instead of a sacred act between mother and father.

Want to be sure you don’t give birth to a stranger’s child? Conceive the old-fashioned way.

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She Gave Her Womb to Her Sister—What Comes Next?

In the UK, a woman underwent brutal surgery to donate her womb to her sister so she could carry a baby.

Sweet? Maybe. Sacrificial? No doubt.
But also… a massive ethical can of worms.

Because here’s what’s coming: autogynephilic men, emboldened by stories like this, will demand wombs of their own. And if our only ethical framework is "compassion" and "inclusivity," how will we say no?

Empathy shouldn’t blind us to where the path is headed. Children deserve better than this experimental future.

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Kids aren’t lab projects, lifestyle accessories, or political experiments. They deserve to be conceived in love, raised by their mom and dad, and protected from adult desires that ignore their rights.

If you agree, share this post. Let’s keep flipping the script—and putting Them Before Us.