Playing God with Pregnancies

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Have you heard of the newest innovation in family planning?  It actually gives "family planning" a whole new meaning.  It's called "preservation in vitro fertilization," I first read about it in a recent article from The Washington Post.  It involves freezing a perfectly fertile and healthy couple's embryos when they are young (and genetically more likely to have healthy babies) until they are "financially stable" and "have more parenting time."

Here's what I think...

Apart from it being weird and kinda creepy when you first read about freezing embryos, I do not agree with this and let me tell you why.  I believe there is a certain order in life that God has given us.  There is a time to be a child, a time to learn, and a time to be a parent, etc.  According to a woman's most fertile years it appears God has established ages of approx. 20-40 to be the time to have children. I don't think we should try to find loopholes for our body's natural limitations or tendencies.

In addition, I think the couple from this article have their priorities mixed up.  Evidence of this is that she says that have to wait until they have more time to spend with their child...you make sacrifices and make time.  She is 32 and is still not ready to have a child, do you think she will ever be ready? They don't think that they are in a good enough financial position to have a child, and yet they spend more than $10,000 on freezing their embryos (I don't know about you, but I wouldn't have been able to afford that before we had our son). It seems to me if a fertile and happily married couple, who want children, and are financially secure (and sounds like they do have the financial means) aren't ready in their early 30's, they may never be ready...also, is any one ever ready? 

I am very interested to hear what you all think about this....let me know in the comments.