The Southern Baptist Convention has formally opposed IVF, saying its destruction of embryos is incompatible with the organization’s support pro-life position.
With IVF fueling around 2% of births in the U.S., the anti-abortion movement has splintered over how to reconcile a fertility option that is pro-family yet destroys embryos. The SBC boasts nearly 13 million members across the country, making itself a pivotal player in the political chess game around IVF.
Bart Barber, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, laughs while his sixteen-year-old daughter Sarah shaves Iris, a Santa Gertrudis show heifer, at a livestock event in McKinney, Texas, on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. Bart Barber grew up in a Southern Baptist family in Lake City, Ark. Baptized just before his sixth birthday, he felt God calling him to ministry at age 11 and preached his first sermon at 15.
The resolution did not call for a ban on IVF. Rather, the SBC outlined concerns about the fertility treatment’s ethical implications, citing the genetic testing that weeds out embryos with genetic defects, as well as millions of unused frozen and abandoned embryos in storage. “In Vitro Fertilization most often engages in the destruction of embryonic human life and increasingly engages in dehumanizing methods for determining suitability for life and genetic sorting, based on notions of genetic fitness and parental preferences; and WHEREAS, Estimates suggest that between 1 million and 1.
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