“They were attacking my faith. It bothered me to the core,” said Sara, a Southern Baptist who identifies as pro-life. “Because I had never viewed [IVF] as wrong, as anything other than beautiful and bringing another life into the world. … I’ve actually had a lot of friends pray for me and encourage me and help me along in the process.”

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    03·
    9 months ago

    It doesn’t seem that inconsistent to me. Natural pregnancy often ends in spontaneous abortion (usually before the woman knows that she’s pregnant) but pro-life people aren’t against getting pregnant. I suppose that as long as the goal is to have a child, God makes sure no souls are harmed.

    • capital@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      There’s no getting around the fact that IVF ends with discarding some embryos.

      And if you think life begins at conception, that’s murder.

      Edit: Just read this in a NYT article:

      More than 120 Republican members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of the Life at Conception Act. Among them is their leader, Speaker Mike Johnson, an evangelical Christian who has called abortion “an American holocaust.” The bill provides that “the terms ‘human person’ and ‘human being’ include each and every member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.”

      That’s ironclad. You CANNOT support both IVF and believe life begins at conception.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      Wait, so God can make sure no souls are harmed??? So why doesn’t he just always do that regardless if it’s an abortion or not? Instead he’s actively picking and choosing which child’s soul is harmed and which isn’t?? What an abhorrent monster your God is.

      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Well, God has to draw the line somewhere. It would be weird if people who were going to live tragically short lives were instead born as soulless husks. The pro-life Christians defending IVF presumably think he draws the line at successful implantation.

        (Also, can people not tell by my tone that I’m an atheist?)

      • STOMPYI@lemmy.world
        03·
        9 months ago

        That’s just your perspective. There are plenty beleif systems allowing “souls” to check on their physical bodies but not actual reside permanently till up to 4 years old. So yea that’s is your opinion of life based on your definition of life contingent to a concept of a permanent soul.