[gondramB]

>>Thereby driving millions of infertile couples into the ranks of the Democratic Party? Brilliant recipe for political suicide.<<

Are we talking politics or principles?

[Alter Kaker]

Are we talking politics or principles?

Politics. This is a political website. If you want principle, go talk to your priest, minister, or rabbi.

[Alter Kaker]

To give you a fuller answer, it really doesn’t matter if banning IVF is a principled issue for you, because the folks who call the shots in the Administration — like, almost certainly, their counterparts in future Administrations — are never going to do anything that would seriously impair the ability of the Republican Party to win national elections. Attempting to ban IVF would make it virtually impossible for the GOP to win nationwide, at least in the near term.

[muawiyah]

Not likely there are "millions of infertile couples". Rather, there are many infertile men, and infertile women, but they're not necessarily married to each other (or otherwise involved in reproductive matters).

It's usually one, or the other, but less often both who have this problem.

In order times it was usually resolved with friendly relatives or neighbors, and by close adoption within extended families.

Some populations, e.g. the Sa'ami, are supposed to have a far lower incidence of infertility than others. Most likely "infertile couples" could benefit enormously from the ministrations of a naoide.