I became pro-life in 1978, when I started working as a medical technician in the NICU. We were required, morally, ethically, and legally to try to save the babies in the NICU. Many of them were born at 6 months gestation. And literally on the same floor, around the corner, they were killing babies through abortion who were older than the ones we were obligated to save in the NICU.
The ONLY difference was that the mothers of the babies in the NICU wanted their children, and the mothers of the babies being aborted did not. And I thought to myself “if that’s how we’re going to decide who gets to live and who doesn’t, that someone else has to want us, then that’s a really dark place that I don’t want to go.” If we, as a society, are not willing to pay the price of defending the right to life of ALL the innocent, then we will necessarily end up in that very dark place. And I think it’s clear we’re very close to it, if not already there.
The problem of frozen embryos is just one of the many problems with IVF, but if they are human beings, and they obviously are, then we have to be willing to pay the price of defending their lives.
I understand the implications. But as pro-lifers, are we willing to put our money where our mouths are, or not?
God bless you.
And if our political candidates run on this issue, then they may be clubbed over the head with it and lose. Will the liberal Dems doing the clubbing protect those lives better if they win on this issue? These are fascinating questions of strategy were the consequences so uncertain for the unborn.