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It's not illogical - it's simply an extension of the fundamentalist argument that is being proposed against IVF.

Some are drawing a distinction between facilitating conception and facilitating extended life through medical techniques.

I offer that life is life and there is no distinction between a sperm and an egg and you.

Therefore, if medical intervention is bad it is bad in all cases - I think to selectively select areas where it's ok completely invalidates the "it's God's will" argument.

By fundamentalist you mean obeying the creator of the universe?

I think several posts in this thread have outlined the reasons for condemning IVF and many so-called fertility tenements. None of them have anything to do with equating a sperm with a person.

Medical intervention is not bad in all cases. What the definition of medical intervention is is the key issue here. Perhaps Hitler would call experimenting on handicapped people and prisoners good medical intervention. It is not.

Medicine is to assist in eliminating disease through moral means. It is not to commit intrinsically evil acts even if some good may come of it.