The anti-abortion movement is turning on Republican lawmakers who support bills to protect in vitro fertilization, accusing them of sanctioning murder.
….“For a lot of conservative Republican lawmakers, being against abortion has served as a kind of lazy way to say that you’re a conservative,” said Jameson Taylor, director of policy and legislative affairs for the Mississippi-based American Family Association Action. “Frankly, a lot of Republican lawmakers are not in touch with conservative principles because they have not taken sufficient time to think through what those principles are.”
In Alabama, the anti-abortion movement resoundingly condemned a bill shielding IVF providers from criminal and civil charges, and pressured GOP Gov. Kay Ivey to veto it. When she signed it anyway, one anti-abortion organization said the new law “disrespects human life and strips human beings of their dignity,” and another ran digital ads against Ivey and Republican lawmakers using graphic imagery and accusing them of “[betraying] life.”
“Politicians cannot call themselves pro-life, affirm the truth that human life begins at the moment of fertilization and then enact laws that allow the callous killing of these preborn children simply because they were created through IVF,” Live Action president Lila Rose said after Alabama Republicans approved the legislation.
….In Congress, anti-abortion groups are vowing to penalize GOP members if they support pro-IVF bills they believe go too far, including a nonbinding resolution introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) earlier this month. And speakers, including the head of the influential Heritage Foundation, told activists at a recent anti-abortion summit in Washington, D.C., that Republicans have proved themselves “a fickle ally in the fight for the unborn” since the Dobbs decision, and can’t be relied upon to advance their agenda.
“Republicans — those who claim to be pro-life — have to be consistent in that viewpoint, and not run from that conversation,” Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, told POLITICO.
Yet the divide over IVF does not mean anti-abortion groups are breaking with the GOP entirely. This week, leaders of two of the country’s biggest groups — Susan B. Anthony List and March for Life — will attend House Republicans’ annual policy retreat. And even the groups most upset over the wave of pro-IVF legislation won’t commit to primarying the bills’ supporters, telling Politico they’d rather “educate” them on the issue.
….“Saying that you support IVF doesn’t mean anything unless we talk about what IVF is,” said Kristi Hamrick, chief policy strategist for Students for Life of America. “Do you support allowing a clinic that allows another patient to wander back and destroy embryos to go without any sanctions? Do you support allowing a disreputable doctor who uses his own sperm to fertilize most of the women’s eggs in the facility — that person shouldn’t experience any repercussions? What exactly are you saying you support?”
….As the debate rages at the state and national levels, Perkins and other anti-abortion leaders say they’re hopeful, despite recent setbacks, that the conversation ignited by the Alabama ruling will eventually lead to more restrictions on IVF.
“The silver lining here is that it’s drawing attention to something that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention,” he said. “More policymakers will begin to look at this and say, ‘Hey, you know? That this is something that really does need some oversight.’ I think they’ll wind up in a place different than the Alabama Legislature.”
From Politico
It is illogical to be prolife, antiabortion yet pro IVF. Such an amalgamation of positions is philosophically, logically, and scientifically inconsistent and untenable. It shows that a lot of conservatives don’t have a clue that IVF generates human beings in a laboratory.
Conservative Republican lawmakers must support traditional, Biblically-based, man-woman marriage and family, and be totally pro life. They must outlaw abortion and IVF. Children must never begin life in a scientist’s petri dish, in a laboratory– nor be kept frozen for years and years, in a frozen embryo bank– then, perhaps, later unwanted– and ultimately, callously discarded and killed. How many brothers and sisters of IVF-created children are there, living cruelly as frozen embryos, in a lab bank– later to be discarded and killed? Children must come from the hand of God, in the natural marital union of Man and Woman, elevated by God in the holy Sacrament of Marriage. On March 13, 2024, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder of the Ruth Institute for Marriage and Family, sent everyone a wonderful video, of an interview with Mallory Millett, younger sister of the famous feminist, Kate Millett (1934-2017), who rose to fame in 1970, with her best-selling book, “Sexual Politics,” based on her Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University. She was a prominent committee member with the NOW– National Organization for Women– in New York, in 1966. In this interview, Mallory tells all about her deviant, diabolical, Marxist-Feminist sister, Kate, one of the chief social engineers of the feminist movement, along with all her feminist colleagues, of the so-called “Second Wave Feminists.” She was bisexual– first married to a man, and later, married to a woman. Mallory Millett describes her horror at attending a NOW meeting, and their diabolical goals– to destroy traditional marriage and the family, by four means: to promote homosexuality, prostitution, promiscuity, and abortion. Very chilling! Mallory states that this historical moment was one chosen by Satan. Here is a link to the interview:
https://youtu.be/rKowRibfZP4?si=9pw7UdnrCRLeRgRB
Mallory Millett, now age 85, became a devout Catholic, along with her husband, and they are involved at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC, where Mallory is a lector.
We really don’t need to drag people through the mud. The woman had untreated mental illness and she is dead. Please let her rest.
She was probably not as influential as her sister wants people to believe.
This situation— the Satanic Death Culture– is terribly serious. These evils have invaded our Church, too– and have been terribly destructive. The whole point, is regardless of who caused it– living or dead– we have horrific evils in our society, in the Satanic Death Culture, that must be ended….
I correct my comment above.
Kate Millet was not untreated. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (or manic depression as it was called back then.)
She wrote a book called The Loony Bin Trip about her experiences being “treated” for it.
Looks like this crazy, violent, Marxist-Feminist mental patient, Kate Millett, cleverly convinced NYC politicians to allow all the sick mental patients to leave mental hospitals, and gave them their “rights”– to live a terrible life, homeless, on the NYC streets! And many cities and states then followed suit. JFK actually began a task force in 1962, that started the deinstitutionalization process, for psychiatric patients. Psychiatric facilities were notoriously cruel to patients. JFK had a sister, Rosemary, who was mentally retarded, and he was interested in mental health issues. Then in 1967, then-Gov. Reagan signed a law, allowing psychiatric patients their “rights” and “freedom” to leave mental hospitals– and do as they wish– and next, all the mental hospitals in CA were closed. In Oct. of 2023, Gov. Newsom signed a law to allow for involuntary psychiatric treatment fir severely ill mental patients. Many politicians have tried to initiate programs that require drug testing for welfare recipients, and mandatory drug treatment programs, rescinding welfare checks, for dope addicts. We also have CA Prop. 1 on the ballot, to finance 11,000 treatment beds, and all necessary housing, social services, etc., for mentally ill homeless people. A lot of serious work needs to be done, to help the poor, sick, desperate, homeless mentally ill people– as well as drug addicts– ever since unstable, liberal-leftist, crazy 1960s radical social activists– like violent, Marxist-Feminist Kate Millett, and many, many others– tried to destroy our great country.
Two sides to every story but the story is very important.
Mental illness, like substance abuse, is a family disease.
Kate’s side: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-13-vw-175-story.html
Mallory’s side https://nypost.com/2014/06/16/how-our-failed-mental-health-system-kills/
I thank you for posting about the sisters. It is quite interesting.
I would love to see an unconditionally pro-life candidate.
Alabama Republicans just gave IVF a green lite.