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Reproductive Technology

IVF Is Not Pro-Life

By Filings on Tue, 10/21/25
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Trump: “I think this is very pro-life. You can’t get more pro-life than this.” - National Review

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Articles Messing with Imago Dei: Is “baby optimization” unscientific and immoral?

By Filings on Tue, 05/13/25
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“The founder of one company that offers this ‘service’ told Sussman her motivation came from watching her own mother lose her vision to a genetic condition. To help others avoid this fate, her company offers parents ‘a risk profile on each embryo’s propensity for conditions.’” - Breakpoint

IVF regulations a ‘wild, wild west’

By Filings on Tue, 03/04/25
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“Evangelical ethicists are urging policymakers to tap the brakes on in vitro fertilization (IVF) expansion despite an executive order by President Donald Trump and widespread enthusiasm for the practice.” - Baptist Press

The Latest Executive Order about IVF: Calling It Pro-life Does Not Make It So

By Filings on Wed, 02/26/25
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“Through a series of videos on the topic in the What Would You Say? series, we contend that if life begins at conception, which has been a central pro-life talking point for decades, IVF as currently practiced needs far more regulation, not less.” - Breakpoint

Trump signs executive order to 'aggressively' make IVF more affordable and accessible

By Filings on Thu, 02/20/25
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“President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments through the reduction of out-of-pocket costs.” - Fox

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ACCC Resolution on In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

By Filings on Tue, 11/26/24
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“the American Council of Christian Churches… resolves to oppose as murderous any IVF procedure which produces more children than a woman is willing to carry to birth.” - ACCC

An IVF Primer

By Filings on Thu, 09/26/24
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“IVF separates the unitive and procreative goods of sex, a separation that is not morally neutral. IVF can treat humans as a product, the sort of being it is right to produce or manipulate. At times, although certainly not always, IVF raises additional questions about the morality of surrogacy or of having donor-conceived children.” - Public Discourse

A Theology of Reproductive Technology – A Review of Oliver O’Donovan’s ‘Begotten or Made?’

By Filings on Mon, 07/01/24
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“Begotten or Made? is slender, with its five main chapters coming to a little over a hundred pages. But while compact, it is carefully and cogently argued” - TGC

Gallup: Americans Back IVF; Divide on Morality of Destroying Embryos

By Filings on Fri, 06/14/24
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“82% saying [IVF] is morally acceptable and 10% saying it is morally wrong. However…divided about destroying frozen human embryos created by in-vitro fertilization, with 49% believing it is moral to do so and 43% disagreeing.” - Gallup

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Southern Baptist ethics committee says IVF is immoral, tells Christians to oppose it

By Filings on Thu, 06/06/24
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“Echoing Catholic teaching, ERLC President Brent Leatherwood says the procedure causes moral harm and separates procreation from sex.” - RNS

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