Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Children Are Not Products

An article in The Atlantic a few days ago had quite the eye-catching headline: “The Anti-Abortion Activists Who Want to Stop People from Having Kids.”

Now, as someone who has worked in the pro-life movement for decades, I can’t say that I’ve ever come across activists who are especially interested in preventing couples from having children. However, a quick scan of the article revealed that, as you might expect, the headline is an egregious instance of biased editorializing. The article, as it turns out, was about the pro-life movement’s moral concerns with the practice of in vitro fertilization (IVF).

At some point, someone must have complained to The Atlantic about their inaccurate (and insulting) headline, because when I revisited the article a couple days later, the headline had been changed to the slightly less egregious, but still misleading, “Who Should Get to Have Kids.”

Once again, this headline suggests that the argument over the ethics of IVF has to do with whether or not certain people will be “permitted” to have children.

Widespread Confusion on IVF ….

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