In-vitro new front in embryo war, Right-to life battle lines may be shifting to frozen embryos

An Illinois judge declares that an early embryo is a human being, allowing a couple to sue a clinic for destroying a fertilized egg. A U.S. senator suggests that couples seeking fertility treatment should not be allowed to produce more embryos than they wish to implant simultaneously.

Anti-abortion activists picket a fertility clinic in Virginia, proclaiming, "IVF kills babies."

These and other developments have some reproductive health experts wondering if opposition to embryonic stem cell research may broaden to include in-vitro fertilization, a mainstream medical procedure used by millions of people. Abortion opponents contacted by the Tribune said they were not aware of any lobbying to ban or restrict in-vitro fertilization--IVF--but they'd happily support such legislation.

"IVF requires killing," said Bill Beckman, executive director of the Illinois Right to Life Committee. "They choose which [embryos] to implant, and they create spares that will die."

The cells used in embryonic stem cell research come from IVF embryos, which critics believe deserve the same ethical treatment as living children. The debate has raised awareness that this procedure typically creates more embryos than are used to make babies. Many experts believe IVF is far too commonplace to be drastically restricted. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine estimates that one of every 100 children born in the U.S. is conceived this way.

Beckman agreed that trying to limit IVF would be difficult, adding that abortion and euthanasia are higher priorities. "There are too many battles to fight, and IVF is not at the top of the priority list," he said.

"It doesn't have the same priority for us as stem cell research," said Carrie Gordon Earll of Focus on the Family. "There are only so many man-hours to go around." Yet recent events are provoking anxiety in the field of assisted reproduction.

IVF is evil, many children are created and then are discarded when their use is no longer needed, all those embryos are God's children, over 400,000 are in frozen prisons, in gulags, frozen in suspended animation only waiting to be used by "scientists" to harvest them for their body parts. This is from where the embryos for embryonic stem cells come.

And countless children have been "miscarried" by this procedure and flushed down the toilet. Remember, at least 3 or more "embryos" are implanted during each IVF procedure.

Children are a gift from God, all children belong to God--remember we are all children of God. When a married couple can't conceive it's not a right to relegate children as mere property and create them in a test tube. It's against God's natural and moral law.. They are not commodities. Adoption is the loving option, maybe these couples were not intended to conceive; God had other plans for them--to adopt. Certainly it's not in God's plan to relegate his children as common property, create them in a test tubes and put the rest on ice for future cannibalistic research for their stem cells or flush the unimplantable down the toilet.

DESTROYED EMBRYO DEEMED HUMAN (Chicago, IL Court Ruling)

The Gospel of Life--Evangelium Vitae

Croatia's Catholic Bishops Warn In Vitro Fertilization is “a Serious Crime”

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith DONUM VITAE
Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation
Replies to Certain Questions of the Day, February 22, 1987

Actress Brooke Shields aborted How Many of her own Children by undergoing 7 IVF Treatments

Brain-damaged IVF stroke victim wins negligence case

Cutting Through the Spin on Stem Cells and Cloning, Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, Ph.D. [RealPlayer video, 1 hr. 20 mins.]

President Discusses Embryo Adoption and Ethical Stem Cell Research (Remarks on Bioethics)

IVF babies have greater chance of defect

IVF babies at 40 percent more birth defect risk:

Defect risk is 40pc higher with IVF

Stem cell research may be boon to fertility clinics Folks, it's all about money
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