Political Grandstanding on IVF Ignores Its Abuse of Human Dignity, by Michael Warsaw

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The reality that human life begins at conception isn’t religious doctrine, it’s basic biology.

Until a couple of weeks ago, few believed that Democrats and Republicans were capable of uniting on any issue, let alone one so seemingly out of left field as in vitro fertilization. But here we are.

What prompted this sudden concern for the plight of couples struggling with infertility was a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court last month that embryos created through IVF are human persons protected under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.

Contrary to what politicians and many in the media would have you believe, the court’s Feb. 16 decision didn’t ban IVF in Alabama, nor did it prohibit the long-term storage of frozen embryos. But it did scare the highly lucrative and unaccountable IVF industry, which temporarily shut down clinics in Alabama to sound an alarm for everybody else, including their clients and leaders of both political parties. ….