The perverse zealotry of the anti-IVF movement
If they knew what patients endured, antiabortion extremists might learn more about caring for unborn babies.
Beware victorious political movements. Winning brings out the zealots, and zealots devour their friends. Consider the Khmer Rouge of 1970s Cambodia, who, at the peak of its power, was known to kill people for wearing glasses on the theory that glasses signified the elite intellectual class. As though anyone other than an elite intellectual could digest the turgid tomes of the communist canon. Sign up for Democracy, Refreshed, a newsletter series on how to renovate the republic. It is thus with the antiabortion movement in the United States. Aflame with its success in overturning Roe v. Wade, the zealots of the movement have turned their energies against the suite of medical procedures known generally as IVF.
I doubt very seriously that many of the Baptists who voted last week to anathematize IVF have any experience with it. Let me tell them a little about it.
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