Liam Conner
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, on Wednesday called for restrictions on in vitro fertilization as the controversial topic of reproductive rights takes center stage before the November elections.
Delegates at the Southern Baptists’ annual convention adopted a resolution criticizing in vitro fertilization due to the fact that the procedure often results in the destruction of unused embryos.
It stated that the procedure “routinely generates more embryos than can be safely implanted, thereby resulting in the continued freezing, storage, and ultimate destruction of human embryos, some of which may also be subjected to medical experimentation.”
Delegates called on Southern Baptists to “reaffirm the unconditional value and right to life of every human being, including those at an embryonic stage.”
They urged members to “use only reproductive technologies consistent with this statement, especially in the number of embryos generated in the in vitro fertilization process.”
Those planning to use in vitro fertilization should “consider adopting frozen embryos,” the resolution says.
Delegates also called on Southern Baptists to “advocate that the government restrict actions inconsistent with the dignity and worth of every human being, which necessarily includes frozen embryonic human beings.”
With a network of tens of thousands of churches, the Southern Baptist Convention has about 13 million members, mostly in the South.
According to the Pew Research Center, there were about 141 million Protestants in the US in 2019.
The Southern Baptists’ resolution comes as Democrats seek to make reproductive rights a key campaign issue ahead of the November 5 elections.
The vote will be the first presidential election since the Supreme Court struck down the national right to abortion in 2022, after which most Republican-led states moved to quickly ban or severely limit the procedure.
In vitro fertilization has also become a major issue following a February court ruling in deeply conservative Alabama that said frozen embryos had children’s rights.
Deemed by President Biden as “outrageous and unacceptable,” the decision led to several Alabama clinics suspending your IVF programs and quickly became a national political flashpoint.
Faced with a national outcry, including pressure from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Alabama legislature quickly moved to pass a law to protect in vitro fertilization.
Seeking to raise the issue’s profile, Democrats in the Senate planned to bring a national in vitro fertilization protection bill to a vote on Thursday.
Republicans, however, were expected to block the bill after another in vitro fertilization bill introduced by members of their party passed. thwarted by Democrats on Wednesday.
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