The Moral and Religious Incompatibility with Contemporary Politics
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This month, I’m writing in reaction to a recent bit of news out of Alabama. Well, it’s a month old now, but such is life with a monthly newsletter.
Right-wing lawmakers in Alabama effectively banned in-vitro fertilization treatments. The policy states that life begins in embryo, and if life does begin in embryo, then the embryos lost in unsuccessful treatments and other operating room mishaps are tantamount to murder. Or at least that’s what the law suggests.
I don’t feel all that passionate about IVF treatments. My limited exposure happened in high school, when my French teacher, who I love and respect, became the surrogate for her sister and ended up teaching us class by recording videos as she was laid up in bed with complications from the pregnancy. My only thought at the time was that she was unselfish and that learning French from a bedridden teacher was odd.
Still, this news from Alabama frustrates me. There is a blatant hypocrisy that the supposedly pro-life, pro-family party would enact laws that deny willing and desiring parents the chance of children.
