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

truth. The Colson Center. I'm John Stone Street. According to Ryan Anderson, president of the

Ethics and Public Policy Center, quote, the Trump administration's IVF policy unveiled on Thursday

is perhaps the least bad that we could have hoped for, but least bad is still bad, end quote.

With his long-awaited or dreaded follow-up to his earlier executive order,

the president announced a plan to dramatically reduce the cost of in vitro fertilization,

provide insurance coverage for fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization, and increase

access to it. According to the president, quote, you can't get more pro-life than this.

But IVF is not pro-life. Despite what was said during the president's press conference on Thursday,

IVF is not even pro-fertility. Yes, born children do result from IVF, but the way it's overwhelmingly

and almost universally practice means that far more lives are lost in the process than survive.

As Students for Life President Kristen Hawkins posted on X in response to the announcement,

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

abortion industry doesn't cure infertility and practices eugenics.

End quote.

The embryos that are produced by IVF are subjected to screening prior to implantation,

which checks for everything from the desired sex of the embryo to potential genetic and health conditions.

Any embryo that's deemed not viable is destroyed.

Advocates of IVF can call this widely accepted and practice step in the process whatever they want.

The best word for it is eugenics.

After the screening process, the viable embryos are then prioritized for

implantation. If pregnancies achieve, the remaining embryos are considered to be excess, a population that

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