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Pro-life advocates decry Trump executive order expanding IVF access
President Donald Trump frustrated pro-life activists Tuesday afternoon with an executive order that directs the United States Domestic Policy Council to examine ways to lower costs for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and expand access to the procedure.
IVF is a fertility treatment opposed by the Catholic Church in which doctors fuse sperm and eggs to create human embryos and implant them in the mother’s womb, which deviates from the natural procreative process. To maximize efficiency, doctors create excess human embryos and routinely destroy undesired embryos.
Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins, in a post on X, urged Trump to “please stop and study the IVF industry, which is disturbing as it preys on desperate families, kills humans in the embryonic stage, and promotes eugenics.”
Edward Feser, a Catholic philosopher and professor at Pasadena City College, said in a series of posts on X that “there should be no funding for it whatsoever, and no Trump supporter who would fail vigorously to resist such a move can claim to be genuinely pro-life.”
“Catholics and other pro-lifers: Ask yourself what you would say and do if a Democrat had done this,” Feser said. “If you will not say and do the same thing when Trump does it, then you are a hypocrite whose loyalty to your party has trumped loyalty to your religion and to the natural law.”
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Pro-life advocates decry Trump executive order expanding IVF access
President Donald Trump frustrated pro-life activists Tuesday afternoon with an executive order that directs the United States Domestic Policy Council to examine ways to lower costs for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and expand access to the procedure.
IVF is a fertility treatment opposed by the Catholic Church in which doctors fuse sperm and eggs to create human embryos and implant them in the mother’s womb, which deviates from the natural procreative process. To maximize efficiency, doctors create excess human embryos and routinely destroy undesired embryos.
Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins, in a post on X, urged Trump to “please stop and study the IVF industry, which is disturbing as it preys on desperate families, kills humans in the embryonic stage, and promotes eugenics.”
Edward Feser, a Catholic philosopher and professor at Pasadena City College, said in a series of posts on X that “there should be no funding for it whatsoever, and no Trump supporter who would fail vigorously to resist such a move can claim to be genuinely pro-life.”
“Catholics and other pro-lifers: Ask yourself what you would say and do if a Democrat had done this,” Feser said. “If you will not say and do the same thing when Trump does it, then you are a hypocrite whose loyalty to your party has trumped loyalty to your religion and to the natural law.”
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
