Red-state Christian women are rising up, speaking out to defend IVF
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Following an Alabama court ruling that put IVF at risk, women who usually post online about faith and family have become outspoken, even angry advocates.

“They were attacking my faith. It bothered me to the core,” said Sara, a Southern Baptist who identifies as pro-life. “Because I had never viewed [IVF] as wrong, as anything other than beautiful and bringing another life into the world. … I’ve actually had a lot of friends pray for me and encourage me and help me along in the process.”

  • capital@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    There’s no getting around the fact that IVF ends with discarding some embryos.

    And if you think life begins at conception, that’s murder.

    Edit: Just read this in a NYT article:

    More than 120 Republican members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of the Life at Conception Act. Among them is their leader, Speaker Mike Johnson, an evangelical Christian who has called abortion “an American holocaust.” The bill provides that “the terms ‘human person’ and ‘human being’ include each and every member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.”

    That’s ironclad. You CANNOT support both IVF and believe life begins at conception.