Southern Baptists vote to oppose IVF and reject tighter ban on women pastors<\/p>\n
The resolution on IVF states that \u201cthough all children are to be fully respected and protected, not all technological means of assisting human reproduction are equally God-honoring or morally justified.\u201d It cites the number of embryos generated in the IVF process \u2014 resulting in freezing, stockpiling and sometimes destroying the excess \u2014 and asks families to use other reproductive technologies, or to consider adopting children or unwanted frozen embryos.<\/p>\n
Read more at 19th News<\/a><\/p>\n Why the Southern Baptists’ vote opposing IVF could change national politics<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a long process. It took us 50 years to take down Roe<\/i>,\u201d said Brent Leatherwood, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the SBC. \u201cIt may take us a similarly long time frame to get people to a place where they are thinking more deeply about something like this. It\u2019s okay. It takes time. We have to be patient.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n Southern Baptists formally oppose in vitro fertilization<\/p>\n Delegates in Indianapolis voted for the resolution opposing IVF, which also urged the denomination\u2019s members \u201cto advocate for the government to restrain actions inconsistent with the dignity and value of every human being, which necessarily includes frozen embryonic human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s opposition to IVF leaves some hurt and grappling with their options<\/p>\n For some, the resolution\u2019s tone was deeply hurtful.<\/p>\n While the document acknowledged the \u201csearing pain\u201d of infertility, it also characterized certain aspects of IVF as \u201cdehumanizing.\u201d It argued that \u201cnot all technological means of assisting human reproduction are equally God honoring or morally justified.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Southern Baptists vote to oppose IVF and reject tighter ban on women pastors The resolution on IVF states that \u201cthough all children are to be fully respected and protected, not all technological means of assisting human reproduction are equally God-honoring or morally justified.\u201d It cites the number of embryos generated in the IVF process \u2014 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[276,104,54,382],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christian-worldview","tag-fetal-personhood","tag-ivf","tag-southern-baptists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}