Pro-life Embryo Adoption Cold War

World Magazine ^ | February 1, 2026 | Leah Savas & Mary Jackson

[Retain Mike]

In the largely unregulated world of IVF, safeguards for embryos, and in some cases, the parents who donate and seek to adopt them, are tenuous at best.

When disputes or clinical mishaps call into question frozen embryos’ ownership and parentage, the law offers little to no protection. Federal regulations for laboratories holding embryos are voluntary. In 49 of 50 states, frozen embryos are deemed property with no right to life. Louisiana is the only state where embryos created using IVF are regarded as “juridical person[s]” and where destroying them is illegal. In Tennessee, where the NEDC is located, lawmakers recently codified IVF as a right. That shields the fertility industry from any ramifications of the state’s pro-life ¬measures, including its classification of an embryo as “an unborn child from fertilization to birth.”

In February 2024, the uncertain legal and moral status of frozen embryos burst into view when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos destroyed in a hospital mishap were “extrauterine children” and the families they belonged to could proceed with wrongful death claims against the fertility clinic responsible for care. Equating frozen embryos to minor ¬children with human rights who deserve protections “ground the entire fertility industry to a halt” in the state, said Katy Faust of the children’s rights advocacy group Them Before Us. Alabama ¬lawmakers quickly passed legislation protecting IVF providers from civil and criminal liability.

“IVF cannot exist if you recognize children not as property, but as people,” Faust said. “Regardless of the individual feelings of parents or the clinic, there’s no legal option to treat them as persons.” The fertility industry is built on “children dying in the process,” she added. For every baby born via IVF, the process conceives countless excess embryos.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: embryo; ivf; life; pro; prolife

[Retain Mike]

Here is a long article which should mess with your mind concerning issues like Christianity, philosophy, and politics.

[Tell It Right]

The IVF argument is basically pseudo logic to try to justify continuing an average of 1.3 million convenience abortions per year.

[21twelve]

Yes, IVF involves the killing of a lot of souls.

In an effort to make people feel better about it, companies now craft the unborn embryos into a necklace.

https://blossomkeepsake.com/pages/ivf-embryo-keepsake

[ViLaLuz]

How much longer, God?

[redinIllinois]

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