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Republican Vice President nominee JD Vance is the latest politician to speak out in support of in vitro fertilization. Vance, the son of an absent father and an abusive mother, was raised by his grandparents. Today, he ironically champions a practice that separates children from their mothers and fathers and violates, as well, their inherent right to life.
In response to his “childless cat lady” remarks regarding Democratic politicians, Vance stated, “It’s not a criticism of people who don’t have children. … This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.”
While Vance voted against the Democratic “Right to IVF Act,” he supported the Republican “IVF Protection Act,” requiring states either to continue providing IVF services or lose their Medicaid funding. Vance stated that he wants to “… make it easier for moms and dads to choose life if, of course, they’re in a terrible situation where they have fertility problems. I believe babies are a profound moral good.” However, Vance, like several other self-proclaimed “pro-life” politicians, have not done their research into how IVF takes more life than it creates. While babies are indeed a “profound moral good,” experimenting and discarding their embryonic lives is profoundly and intrinsically immoral. As stated in Evangelium Vitae, “various techniques of artificial reproduction, which would seem to be at the service of life and which are frequently used with this intention, actually open the door to new threats against life” (No. 14).
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How IVF takes more life than it creates
Conceiving children through gamete donation profoundly affects the rights of these children by denying them the right to their mothers and fathers and causing them to struggle with a vague or nonexistent genetic identity.
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