The Southern Baptist Convention’s mission passed a resolution on Wednesday urging lawmakers to restrict IVF and urging couples to exercise caution when considering the procedure because it involves “frozen human fetuses.” The resolution was passed at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Indianapolis, where federal and state lawmakers considered IVF legislation following the Alabama Supreme Court ruling restricting IVF. In the U.S. Senate, all 49 Republicans signed onto the IVF bill. statement He says he supports in vitro fertilization.
All 49 Senate Republicans have signed a statement in support of IVF, ahead of a vote in the Senate today on a Democratic-led bill that would codify protections for IVF and assisted reproductive techniques, which GOP senators are expected to block.https://t.co/D4a7JjktQu pic.twitter.com/jN28bfSYJY
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“Because the in vitro fertilization process regularly produces more embryos than can be safely implanted, the freezing, storage and ultimately destruction of human embryos will continue, some of which may be subject to medical experimentation,” it said. Solution he says.
The resolution states that it is estimated that “between one and one and a half million human fetuses are currently being stored in cryogenic freezers across the United States, most of whom are “undoubtedly destined for ultimate destruction.”
“We call on Southern Baptists to love all of our neighbors according to the dignity they have as God-given image-bearers and to urge our government to restrain actions that are contrary to the dignity and worth of all human beings, which of course includes cryopreserved human fetuses,” the statement said.
The resolution encourages Southern Baptists to consider adoption, including the adoption of frozen embryos, to save people who would ultimately be killed.Proverbs 24:11-12)
“We stand with couples who have been diagnosed with infertility and those currently struggling to conceive, acknowledging their sacred desire to have a child and encouraging them to consider the ethical implications of assisted reproductive technologies as they turn to God for hope, grace and wisdom in their suffering,” the resolution states. “…We commend couples who have made a sincere effort, at great expense, to use fertility treatments and reproductive technologies only in ways that honor the dignity of the human embryo, and who have accepted frozen embryos.”
“We pledge to pray on behalf of couples struggling with infertility to our God who hears, sees and remembers,” it reads.
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Michael Faust He has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years, and his work has appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, Christian Post, Leaf Chronicle, Toronto Star and Knoxville News Sentinel.
