If Pro-Life Laws Threaten Your IVF Practice, You’re Doing It Wrong
Another win out of the Dobbs decision could and should be the tightening of ethical standards at IVF clinics.
08/22/23
John Stonestreet
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.
Topics
Abortion
Dobbs v. Jackson
families
Fertility
invitro fertilization
IVF
Marriage and Family
Pro-Choice
Pro-life
Roe v. Wade
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