IN VITRO FERTILIZATION

 

Friend,   I recently wrote an OpEd with my friend, constitutional attorney Josh Craddock, that was published in National Review. We covered important information about in vitro fertilization (IVF) that everyone should know. While fertility struggles are common and cause suffering and heartbreak for couples, the practice of IVF causes immense collateral damage that must be exposed.    Even many pro-life people are confused about IVF. Just this week, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Senator Katie Britt of Alabama filed legislation in the U.S. Senate to ensure “IVF is fully protected” and to prevent states from restricting IVF.    This legislation is dangerous and misguided. While Senator Cruz has done important work fighting against the evil of abortion, he is on the wrong side of IVF. Senator Cruz has tragically endorsed legislation that would prevent pro-life states from enacting common-sense safeguards that would protect preborn children from the great harm and even death that is commonplace in the IVF industry.   In most circumstances, IVF leads to the destruction or indefinite storage of many preborn children. However, as written, the bill could stop states from protecting these children, as protection would "prohibit" IVF in certain situations.   Simply put, this bill is not pro-life.   Here are some key points that I want to make sure you know about when it comes to IVF: IVF creates human life itself, not merely the components of human life.  More than 85 percent of the children created through IVF will never be born. The staggering cost of IVF is the millions of dead human children who are created to be killed or indefinitely frozen. The American IVF industry is among the least regulated industries in the nation, operating with minimal oversight and inviting tremendous exploitation and abuse. Media pressure and misinformation tragically hijacked the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision on LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., a case centered on an IVF clinic’s negligence in securing its cryogenic nursery, resulting in the deaths of embryonic children. The Alabama state legislature reacted poorly to that decision by passing a new law that withdrew the existing legal protections for preborn children recognized by the state Supreme Court and also granted an astonishing blanket of civil and criminal immunity to the fertility industry.   This new law conflicts with the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and stands in tension with ​​the Alabama Constitution, which acknowledges the state’s goal “to recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including the right to life.” Each person, from the tiniest embryo to the elderly, has incalculable value and deserves guaranteed legal protection. Infertility can be an incredibly painful burden, but the solution cannot be to deny legal protections to human embryos or to allow them to be frozen or killed at will in America’s IVF industry. Such a trade would be to put the desires of adults over the fundamental rights of children - children who deserve not to be experimented on or destroyed at will.    Our way forward must be to help women and families through innovations such as NaProTechnology, which treats underlying conditions that may undermine fertility.    Having children is a beautiful and amazing thing that we should encourage and make easier, through both culture and public policy. But we must remember that no one is promised or owed a child.    Every life is a gift.    You can read the entirety of this OpEd here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/all-human-life-deserves-respect-ivf-doesnt-change-that/   For Life, Lila Rose Founder and President

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