This is a ghoulish moral abomination:
🚨PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT: President Trump just signed an Executive Order to Expand Access to IVF! 👶
The Order directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments.
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 18, 2025
Just why is expanding access to IVF a ghoulish moral abomination? Here is an explanation in less than three minutes (courtesy of choice42.com):
Here is a longer explanation (about 45 minutes) in the form of an interview I did with Mike Church when our new Catholic Vice President spoke approvingly (and foolishly) of the practice:
For those with subscriptions to the Crusade Radio Network, here is an even longer explanation:
Reconquest Episode 434: What’s Wrong with IVF?
This is not a moral gray area. It is clear. Poorly formed Catholics need to be instructed on the matter, and it should not take long. There is nothing arcane or difficult to understand about it.
Society needs well formed Catholics to be very loud and visible about this. It would be criminal for us to remain silent.
To those Catholic “social conservatives” who have been uncritical cheerleaders for the new administration: It’s time to beat your pom poms into boxing gloves (cf. Isaias 2:4). Some prudent and zealous pugilism — of the spiritual and rhetorical sort, of course — is clearly in order.
Here are further links to educate yourself on the matter:
- Mr. Trump Now Promotes the Moral Abomination of IVF — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
- 7 reasons why IVF is morally wrong and must be opposed — at lifesitenews.com
- Preaching Points on In Vitro Fertilization — by John M. Haas, Ph.D., S.T.L., of The National Catholic Bioethics Center at ncbcenter.org (PDF)
- Gene-Edited Babies and the Runaway Train of IVF — by Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., at ncbcenter.org
- Reconquest Episode 64: Bioethical Nightmares. Guest: Jennifer Lahl — at crusadechannel.com (for subscribers only: go ahead, do it!)
- Time-Delayed Revolutionaries: The Paradox of Modern Conservatism — apposite posting by Joshua Charles on X.com
- Articles on IFV from The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBC) — at cbc-network.org (among other things, these pieces show what a corrupt enterprise the IFV industry is.)
