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

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

When a Fox News article earlier this week, a Southern Baptist pastor argued that pro-lifers both can and

should support in vitro fertilization as a way for, and I quote here, parents to fulfill their

God-given desire to nurture a child.

The article never addresses why most pro-lifers oppose this assisted reproductive technology

especially as it is currently practiced.

Nor does the article mention a resolution that was overwhelmingly passed at this year's annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention

in which the denomination voted to formally oppose IVF.

That resolution was entitled on the ethical realities

of reproductive technologies and the dignity of the human embryo.

In it, Southern Baptist clarified a core conviction that, and I quote here, the dignity

and value of every human being necessarily includes frozen embryonic human beings, end quote.

Like many of the delegates at that convention who opposed that resolution,

the author of this Fox News article told a moving personal story of struggling with infertility.

It's because of IVF, he wrote, that he and his wife now have five beautiful children.

So in his view, IVF is deeply pro-life because it brings children into the world.

It's even miraculous, he said, because it offers people who otherwise could not conceive a child

a chance to do so.

As the SBC's resolution rightly described in stories like this one

confirm, infertility does bring searing pain for those who want children but

are not able to conceive.

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