IVF | Cincinnatus Series

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Amanda Callanan

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In vitro fertilization (IVF) has presented a moral dilemma as its processes discard embryos as a matter of course, ending more lives than even abortion. Emma Waters, Natalie Dodson, and Inez Stepman join host Ryan Williams to discuss this and other concerns surrounding IVF: genetic selection, the creation of human life for profit, the potential use of AI in dictating which embryos live, and more. They also raise solutions state legislatures may consider in the process; possible consequences; and the looming, necessary conversation of bioethics and parenthood in America.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.
0:02.5	We've been breaking the genetic link between parents.
0:05.2	You're breaking the legal concept of motherhood between genetic and natal mothers.
0:11.3	We've already broken that with social mothers, right, through adoption or through many other
0:15.1	veins.
0:15.4	But like the legal concept of motherhood or fatherhood, we're breaking apart sex and procreation. You know,
0:21.9	the sexual revolution broke apart sex and procreation one direction, right? We can now have sex
0:26.1	without having babies for the most part. But now we can have babies without having sex.
0:30.5	And in a world where in real life contact seems to be on the decline, friendships, dating,
0:37.4	even sex between couples, right,
0:39.2	is on the decline. I mean, these are all, I think, societal issues that not only ethically,
0:45.2	we're not going to be able to avoid them or socially in terms of our public discussion,
0:49.4	but legally we're not going to be able to avoid them. These custody battles are going to come up,
0:53.5	right, over embryos. So I think, you know not going to be able to avoid them. These custody battles are going to come up, right? Over embryos.
0:55.0	So I think, you know, starting to think now about how your state is going to deal with these
1:00.6	questions is going to save you from just being on the back foot when they inevitably arise
1:06.2	in state law.
1:45.4	Yeah. on. You know, Well, welcome everyone once again to this special podcast and vidcast series at the Claremont Institute.
2:01.5	We're calling the Cincinnati series. We wanted to give some guidance and general knowledge to state legislators as we've been concentrating more and more lately at the Claremont Institute, not solely, but certainly have expanded our remit into advising state legislators,
2:06.2	especially on education policy and other issues. So we spent the first two weeks on education, but now we're switching to the very uncontroversial topic of IVF. And I am joined by three women
2:12.9	who have written and thought a lot about this issue. Innes Stepman is back. She joined us for one of the education series.
2:20.8	And Innes is a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum.
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