If Pro-Life Laws Threaten Your IVF Practice, You're Doing It Wrong
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 22 August 2023
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Summary
A recent BBC article questioned what last year's Dobbs decision could mean for in vitro fertilization. The owner of a self-described "boutique fertility clinic" in Austin, Texas, told reporters that she's worried abortion restrictions will be bad for business: "If you say life begins at fertili[z]ation, then how can I grow an embryo in a lab, or biopsy it for genetic testing, or freeze it or thaw it, or implant it in somebody, or leave it frozen?"
These questions should have been asked before IVF became big business. In most fertility clinics today, human lives are put in real danger, especially those embryos designated "extra." These are either aborted, left indefinitely on ice, discarded, or donated for medical experimentation.
The few clinics committed to a more (though not completely) ethical IVF, by creating a single embryo at a time or requiring that every embryo is implanted, won't be affected by abortion restrictions, but most of them will. And they should be.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point. |
| 0:04.4 | A recent BBC article questioned what last year's Dobs decision may mean for in vitro fertilization. |
| 0:09.3 | The owner of a self-described boutique fertility clinic in Austin, Texas, told reporters, |
| 0:13.8 | she's worried abortion restrictions will be bad for her business. |
| 0:16.7 | Quote, if you say life begins at fertilization, how can I grow an embryo in a lab or biopsy |
| 0:21.0 | at for genetic testing or freeze it or thaw it or implant it in somebody or leave it frozen? |
| 0:25.4 | While those are questions that should have been asked before IVF became big business. |
| 0:29.0 | The most fertility clinics today human lives are put in real danger, especially those |
| 0:33.0 | embryos designated as extra-switch or either aborted, left on ice, discarded or donated |
| 0:38.6 | from medical experimentation. |
| 0:40.0 | The few clinics committed to a more, though not completely ethical IVF, by creating just |
| 0:45.1 | a single embryo at a time or requiring that every embryo created is implanted, they won't |
| 0:49.8 | be affected by these abortion restrictions. |
| 0:52.0 | But most of them will be, and they should be, for the Colson Center, I'm John Stone |
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