Leaders within the pro-life community have expressed concern that President Trump's executive order will expand access to in vitro fertilization, and the procedure raises serious ethical issues and often leads to surplus embryos. It's claiming. It will eventually be destroyed.
Albert Mohler, Lila Rose, Ally Beth Stucky and Kristan Hawkins were among dozens of pro-life leaders who spoke on social media. Presidential OrderInstructs his staff to develop a “list of policy proposals to proactively reduce IVF access protection and out-of-pocket and health planning costs of IVF treatment.” White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt celebrated X's executive order and claimed Trump kept it The promise he made Election underway.
dopromises have been created. The promise is maintained: President Trump has just signed an executive order to expand access to the IVF! 👶
This order directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and actively reduce out-of-pocket and health planning costs for such treatment.
– KarolineLeavitt (@presssec) February 18, 2025
Pro-life leaders opposed the order, thanking him for his partnership with Trump on other issues.
IVF is an infertility treatment in which eggs are collected from a female ovary, fertilize the eggs with male sperm in the laboratory, and transfer one or more embryos to a female uterus in the hopes of achieving successful pregnancy. Usually multiple embryos It will be created During the process, excess embryos are often discarded.
Hawkins, The president of a student for students is known as the executive order “tragedy.”
“IVF kills children at the embryo stage, and 93% of children pregnant with IVF are pregnant. Being killed Or frozen, never born,“ Hawkins wrote.
Rose, the live-action president, cited similar statistics.
“In the US, 1,000,000 embryos are frozen.“ Rose wrote.
In IVF, Rose added: “On average, 15 children It will be created About one birth. ”
destruction:
President Trump has just signed an order to expand the IVF
Only 7% of human embryos created via IVF lead to birth
93% of these lives are frozen indefinitely, miscarriages or aborted
Over 1,000,000 embryos are frozen in the US
IVF is not life support
– Lila Rose (@lilagracerose) February 18, 2025
Stacky, the host of the related podcast, said the government should not promote IVF.
“We don't need to encourage IVFs that kill more innocent humans than abortion each year.“ Stucky I wrote it. “America is already wild and wild west of reproductive technology. Europe and Canada have much better protection against small lives created in vitro. Here, eugenics and embryo destruction and freeze-up The preservation is ramp-extensive. Create new life problems.”
There is no need to encourage IVF. IVF kills more innocent people with abortion every year. America is already in the wild west of reproductive technology. Europe and Canada have much better protection for the small lives created in vitro. Here, eugenics and embryos…
– Ally Beth Stucky (@conservmillen) February 18, 2025
Too many individuals within the pro-life community, Hawkins writes that they lack a consistent pro-life ethic regarding IVF.
“I've been surprised by the number of Christians who agree that killing innocent children in the womb is wrong when life begins with conception… but IVF says, “It's a blessing.” I'll make a point.'” Hawkins wrote. “The pain of infertility and the desire to have a child are real, but these Christians need to understand that they are commercializing children just like the abortion industry.”
I continue to be amazed at the number of Christians who agree that killing innocent children in the womb is wrong when life begins at conception… but IVF is a “blessing.” I'll make a point.
The pain of infertility and the desire to have a child are real…
– Kristan Hawkins (@kristanhawkins) February 19, 2025
Last June, messengers to the Southern Baptist Treaty's annual meeting passed a resolution calling for lawmakers to restrict IVFs and couples to pay attention to IVFs as couples include “frozen embryo humans.” I did.“
“The in vitro fertilization process regularly generates more embryos than can be safely embedded, resulting in the continued freezing, stockpiling, and ultimate destruction of human embryos. Become a subject For medical experiments,“ Solved I said.
Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, opposed Trump's executive order.
“You now have a situation where millions of human embryos, all of those embryos (humans made of God's image) are destroyed in an empty process. Really I want to admit it,“ Maurer said on his podcast, Briefing.
“As an evangelical Christian, someone who is deeply committed to the Biblical worldview and consistently seeks to compete for the holiness and dignity of human life… I have to say I will lament this announcement from the White House… Not there.“ Mohler said. “I don't lament that goal in terms of giving birth to more babies. That's Be celebratedand I have the courage to establish that goal and do so from the White House. But the means Similarly In the Christian worldview, the end is important. And in this case, it is the at-risk method to represent the problem. ”
Pro-life speaker and podcaster Christine Eargin also criticized the order.
“IVF is a topic that often elicits a lot of emotions, but IVF destroys more embryonic life than planned parent-child relationships, so it needs to be discussed anyway.“ Ears said.
IVF is a topic that often elicits many emotions, but IVF destroys more embryonic life than Planned Parenthood, so it needs to be discussed anyway.
I had a detailed conversation @advo_kata On this issue, I haven't seen IVF the same since. pic.twitter.com/zo0jdgaotp
– Christine Yeargin (@christineyeargs) February 18, 2025
Pastor Jared Cornz of North Shelby Baptist Church in Alabama urged the Trump administration to focus on adoption rather than IVF.
“Instead of expanding the IVF,“ Cornutt said: “We would like to prioritize this administration to make adoption more affordable and address the urgent need for orphans to find a home to love.”
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It was originally published on February 19, 2025.
