Hey, Christian woman, do you have a healthy womb? You do! Well then, let a pre-born child inside that is left frozen so that it doesn't rot, and then take another one, and another one, and another one until we clean up all the warehouses of the fertility clinics so that all those frozen babies get born.
I wonder why the nuns don't join in on saving the frozen babies?
Quote:IVF is life-changing for infertile families. But the Christian right says it’s not in ‘God’s plan’
In February 2024, the Alabama supreme court cited biblical passages to argue that embryos should be legally recognized, not as personal property, but as “extrauterine children” with rights equal to those of children. The ruling upended the local IVF industry, as clinicians handling embryos feared being sued under Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. Several Republican leaders including Ted Cruz and Donald Trump quickly vowed to preserve IVF access, and Alabama lawmakers passed emergency legislation to protect medical staff from lawsuits.
At the same time, prominent Christian right leaders and conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation and Students for Life of America, celebrated the ruling. Some called to extend the legal rights of embryos and expressed their fervent desire to restrict IVF nationwide, arguing that the regular testing, freezing and discarding of embryos makes IVF incompatible with Christian values regarding the sanctity of “unborn children”.
Christian right leaders who oppose IVF have also begun to direct their followers towards a seemingly heaven-sent alternative: the relatively niche practice of embryo “adoption”.
Embryo “adoption” programs actively promote the view of embryos as “preborn” children, all equally deserving of a chance at life, and match mainly white Christian families who have excess embryos from their own IVF journeys to others looking to conceive. In casting the process of embryo donation as adoption, the practice takes a distinctly evangelical view of freezing and storing embryos, said anthropologist Dr Risa Cromer.
What concerns them is the testing, discarding and indefinite storage of embryos; they don’t tend to view cryopreservation itself as especially problematic, as long as God’s divine plan for each embryo is allowed to manifest. In order for that to happen, all embryos in storage should be thawed and transferred “from cold freezers into warm wombs”. The more Christians partake in this mission, evangelicals believe, the more frozen embryos can be “saved”.
Dr Jeffrey Keenan, president and medical director of the non-profit National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) in Knoxville, Tennessee, claims he has seen over 1,000 babies born through its embryo adoption program since 2003. His hope is that “loving homes” are found for the estimated 1.5 million embryos currently cryopreserved in the US and that fewer end up in storage in the first place. “Ultimately, our dream is to put ourselves out of business,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...tian-right
I wonder why the nuns don't join in on saving the frozen babies?
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"
