Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, the president enthusiastically promoted in vitro fertilization, both during his campaign and early in his second term.

However, the administration's policy, which was unveiled in late October, was rightly described by Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson as, and I quote, perhaps the least bad that we could have hoped for.

But he then added, but least bad is still bad.

In his follow-up to the earlier executive order, the president announced his plan to dramatically reduce the cost of

IVF, to provide insurance coverage for fertility treatments that included IVF and to increase

access. According to the president, you just can't get more pro-life than this. The problem is

IVF is not pro-life. It's not even pro-fertility. While born children do result from IVF, the way it's most

often practiced, results in far more lives being lost or suspended in time in a freezer than any

which survive. As Students for Life President Kristen Hawkins posted on X in response to the president's

announcement, quote, the IVF industry kills more pre-born babies than the abortion industry.

It doesn't cure infertility and it practices eugenics, end quote.

Well, also in October, in the wee hours of Halloween morning, the Illinois State Senate passed a bill to legalize assisted suicide in the state, adding the lethal practice to an

unrelated measure on food sanitation. Because the Illinois House had already passed SB

1950, the bill now sits on the desk of Governor Pritzker, who has until January to either sign

or veto the legislation. If he signs, patients with six months or less to live would be granted

access to life-ending medicine, as long as it was determined by a physician and a mental health

professional that they were of sound mind after a series of oral and written requests with witnesses

who could attest. Doctors would also be required to explain other end-of-life

care options like hospice. If prescribed a life-ending drug, patients would then administer it

themselves. Health care providers would not be required to participate. Now, assisted suicide

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