{"id":707,"date":"2009-02-13T08:21:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T08:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/02\/why-arent-pro-lifers-on-a-ramp.html"},"modified":"2009-02-13T08:21:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T08:21:45","slug":"why-arent-pro-lifers-on-a-ramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/02\/why-arent-pro-lifers-on-a-ramp.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren’t Pro-Lifers On a Rampage Against the Fertility Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been discussing for the past week a variety of ethical questions related to Nadya Suleman’s octuplets. Should a woman who can barely handle six, get another eight? Should the clinic have agreed? What rights did the father\/sperm-donor have<\/a>?
\nWhat’s been surprisingly missing from the debate is a strong pro-life voice against the entire fertility industry. For those who believe legal rights should begin at “viability” or birth this is a non-issue but for those who believe life begins at conception, the fertility industry is a massive creator and discarder of lives — 127,977<\/a> in a typical year. In England, almost half the embryos created were destroyed.<\/a>
\nI don’t understand why the pro-life community hasn’t made the abolition of the fertility industry a top goal.
\nYet during this past week I got many emails from religious conservatives about the anti-religion nature of the stimulus package<\/a> and some about the “pro-porn”<\/a> Justice department official, but not a one about the octuplets case.
\nI found one pro-life blog that criticized the situation — but largely, she argued, because it pointed up the dangers of “reproductive rights.” <\/a>
\nI suspect that part of why pro-lifers haven’t come down harder is that they admire her decision not to reduce the number of babies through selective abortion.<\/a>
\nI still have never heard a good explanation from the pro-life community for why they aren’t campaigning to abolish the in vitro industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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