Last week Megan Messerley ended up somewhere a little strange for a health care policy

reporter, a religious convention.

It was the Southern Baptist's annual gathering

this year in Indianapolis.

This is the largest Protestant denomination in the US in a very

politically powerful denomination. There's members of Congress. Ted Cruz,

Lindsey Graham, Mike Johnson, all Southern Baptist, and so this is a denomination

with a lot of heft and a lot of sway.

Megan reports for Politico, so you can see why she'd want to show up. And I heard that they would be bringing forward

this resolution essentially opposing in vitro fertilization and this is something I've been covering for quite a bit of time.

Did everyone know this was coming?

You know, no, I don't think that they knew it was coming.

Some folks I even approached in the convention halls. They

maybe heard that there was a resolution coming on IVF but hadn't fully read the

whole thing. To be clear, it was not the politicians bringing this resolution forward.

It was church leadership. And on Wednesday, thousands of church representatives,

they call themselves messengers, put reproductive technology up to a vote.

My name is Kristen Ferguson from 11th Street Baptist Church in Upland, California,

and I moved at the convention adopt resolution number six on the ethical realities of reproductive

technologies and the dignity of the human embryo.

Picture a massive convention hall, filled with people with little cards in their hands that they

used to vote yay or nay, and anyone can get up to speak.

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