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

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

President Trump enthusiastically promoted in vitro fertilization during his campaign and early in his second term.

However, the administration's policy, which was unveiled in late October, was rightly described by

Ryan Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, as, and I quote,

perhaps the least bad we could have hoped for. But he then added, least bad is still bad.

In a follow-up to an earlier executive order, the president announced a plan to dramatically

reduce the cost of IVF

to provide insurance coverage for fertility treatments, including IVF, and to increase overall

access to IVF. According to Trump, and I quote, you can't get more pro-life than this.

But IVF is not pro-life. In fact, it's not even pro-fertility, as he sometimes claims.

While born children do certainly result from IVF, the way it's most often practiced, results in far more lives being lost than who survive.

As Students for Life President Kristen Hawkins posted on X in response to Trump's announcement, and I quote,

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

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

Also in October in the wee hours of Halloween morning, the Illinois State Senate passed a bill

to legalize assisted suicide, adding the lethal practice to an unrelated

measure about food sanitation. And it was signed into law by Illinois Governor Pritzker earlier this month.

The decision makes the land of Lincoln the 12th state to legalize euthanasia. The law will allow

patients with six months or less to live to be granted

access to life-ending medicine, if determined by a physician and a mental health professional,

to be of sound mind after a series of oral unwritten request, with witnesses attesting to the results.

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