Great post! I’m not sure how this proposal will fare, given the politics surrounding it, but I think you have done justice to the topic.
I think the reproductive choice angle has the highest potential traction, and in general I agree that democratizing this technology is better than trying to ban it. (I gave a talk at a digital humanities conference in Germany this year on the topic, just trying to raise awareness and encourage discussion.)
Another angle that you don’t seem to cover is surrogacy. In Full Surrogacy Now Sophie Lewis makes the case for radically expanding surrogacy—which implicitly includes IVF and pre-implantation screening, so it might be the quickest way to start accelerating progress in this area. As she points out in the book, population from the global south is often used for surrogacy by those who can afford it, since it was banned in wealthier countries. So some of them should already have some experience with the technology.
This comment makes me sad, I’m sorry you got brigaded and I’m sorry you have had such bad experiences with this topic. It is a truly difficult and painful area to read about.
But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Even if you are right on every point and all of this was made up by a bunch of evil racists, it should be very easy to prove them wrong, just by eg. doing any of these studies carefully.
Otoh, if this material reflects something true about the world, it has significant implications and needs to be faced with an open heart at some point.