"Krauthammer suggests conceiving only the number of embryos who will be implanted at a single episode of in vitro fert. That is a minimal position I could support..."
Let's face it... Neither your position nor my position is anywhere near being mainstream. The overwhelming majority of Americans not only have no opposition to the routine creation and destruction of embryos (which apparently you have a problem with), but they in fact want our GOVERNMENT to fund scientific research on those embryos as though they were lab rats (which I oppose). Nothing much is accomplished by us arguing about which of our two ultra-rightwing viewpoints is right.
"The overwhelming majority of Americans not only have no opposition to the routine creation and destruction of embryos ..." Aside from the real possibility that an overwhelming number have no idea of the facts by which to make informed choices in this area, I will agree. And that my fellow freeper is why I'm a pro-life activist who will step out on the limb of unpopular, speaking out ... I firmly believe we must be better informed and acting more for human life support than exploiting it. If the overwhelming number of our fellow Americans believe there is such a thing as the human spirit, it is time to look at this issue from the persepctive of what/whom is being insulted with willful destruction and exploitation of the alive unborn.