“Out of sheer ignorance, do you have a pidyon haben if a baby was concieved through IVF or other modified means?”
What a great question! I cannot see why not – – if the birth is a normal one. The torah does not talk about the way the baby was conceived, only how it exited the womb.
Rabbis?
SJS, I want to wish you a belated mazel tov – for some reason (probably a senior moment), I had not realized you had given birth already. What did you have?