In case you missed it, I wrote about Alabama’s IVF dilemma, and the recent measures passed by its Republican-led legislature to grant legal immunity to IVF providers “for death or damage to an embryo.”
Ryan Anderson had a great essay in First Things on some of the background:
Republicans should not fall for the left’s trap here. They should not hesitate to say that America’s best social and political reforms were suffused with religious conviction. Or that the deepest reasons for our laws lie in God’s eternal law. Nor should Republicans follow pollsters selling them on new government entitlements to IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies. There is no political appetite for bans on these procedures, and the GOP should call out the media’s lies suggesting there is. But our current state of unregulated embryo fabricating, freezing, and destroying does need fixing. The medically superior alternatives to IVF warrant promotion. And at the very least, embryos created through IVF deserve legal protection.