by Rusty Pugh and Bill Fancher
A spokesman for the American Life League says the pro-life movement needs to take a serious look at in vitro fertilization.
American Life League supporters recently gathered outside the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia, to address the pitfalls of in vitro fertilization. The group has kicked off a tour of clinics to educate the public about what it describes as the “evil nature” of the process.
ALL spokesman Moe Wolpering says people need to understand that in vitro fertilization results in death for many human embryos. “What happens is in an in vitro fertilization cycle, a number of eggs are fertilized at one time, so we get a handful of human embryos — three or four, sometimes five and six — [that] are introduced into the womb of a woman.”
According to Wolpering, most of those embryos die. “You can't force a human embryo to implant,” he says, “and these deaths just don't have to take place.”
Wolpering says leftover embryos are also frozen, resulting in the deaths of many more, either from the freezing or the thawing process. He says in vitro fertilization — which he describes as a “hit-and-miss proposition” — destroys up to nine embryonic human beings for every one pregnancy brought to term. Those deaths as well, he says, do not need to take place.
Cloning Debate
Elsewhere on the pro-life front, it appears that pressure from various places could force the Senate debate on cloning to be moved up in the schedule of bills when Congress returns. Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas says a unique coalition has been put together in order to build such support for a ban on human cloning.
“Despite some similarities, this debate is not about abortion — and I don't think it should be confused with that debate,” Brownback says. “Perhaps this is why we have such a broad coalition forming of groups who are strongly opposed to abortion [and] groups also that are strongly supportive of abortion, environmentalist, and others.”
The Kansas Senator has suggested a six-month moratorium on all human cloning until the issue has been thoroughly debated.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
