Why aren't fertility clinics picketed by the pro-life movement?

Question

I posted this on a slow board last night, and wanted to get additional perspectives:

If life starts at conception, as the prolife movement states, then fertility clinics are probably the site of more "killing" than abortion clinics.

if you're not aware, a much larger number of embryos are fertilized than a couple can use in these clinics because of the high probability that they won't survive. And the leftovers are discarded. Even those "moral" people who refuse to have them discarded pay to keep their leftovers frozen forever... so even then the idea should be monstrous... keeping a "life" in suspended animation indefinitely (isn't death preferable to that anyway?)

to be blunt, one flush in a fertility clinic probably carries away a month's worth of appointments at an abortion clinic.

Some religions are against IVF, but the clinics are never protested.
So, why aren't fertility clinics protested against?

rosieC, I was not talking about art.insem.
look into IVF.. you are misinformed about it.

they NEVER fertilize and implant one embyro at a time. It's always many more, and the vast majority of times, extras are kept in frozen storage.

You don't know as much about this issue as you think you do. No offense, but that's the truth.

Answer 1

Interesting question... I believe the answer lies in that people don't really have a grasp on the situation and science of it and they are parroting what someone else said when they picket at abortion clinics etc.

Answer 2

it is the ingredient. If a woman receives pregnant, all she has to do is do no longer something, and that's a sturdy guess that 9 months later she'll have a sparkling toddler. A fertilized egg in a try tube calls for major action to make that become a sparkling toddler.

Answer 3

While fertilized eggs are in fact the beginning of life and flushing them at fertility clinics is murder equally as well as abortions are murder, the pro-life movement is truely concerned with the life of the expectant mother more than the child she is willing to discard.

Murdering children is indeed tragic in any form, but women are sold a lie by Planned Parenthood and the industry of death that they are only ridding themselves of unwanted tissue. Women who have abortions can suffer tremendous guilt for the rest of their lives when they discover the truth about what they did.

When this battle is won, then the next can begin. Legislation to prohibit stem cell research that involves fetuses is the best way to fight this particular battle at this time.

Answer 4

These fertility clinics aren't picketed by the pro- life movement because they have the same agenda. They want to have babies;not kill them.

You 're not so well informed in your summarization of the situation. During artificial insemination, no embryos are killed.The man does his thing and the sperm is injected into the woman's uterus. It's an egg fertilized with sperm. And not even sure if it will take. When the woman takes fertility drug;tendency is to have multiple births. No killing is involved. Even in the IVF method which is expensive. The egg is fertilized with the sperm in a petri dish and reintroduced into the woman's uterus.

Again there's no quarantee that such will be successful in making an embryo or fetus. No fetus or embryo is kept in suspended animation. The only ones that are frozen are the sperm in a sperm bank. The egg got only 3 days in the fallopian tube to be fertilized. That's why in some cases, this egg is harvested.

Answer 5

Because I think deep down it's not a science issue it's an issue of political control and the abortion issue fits much better into that. They want the ability to dictate to people what they should and should not be doing with their adult bodies. Only when that is resolved will they turn to other issues.

Answer 6

You may have a valid point. I suppose we (I am pro-life) see only the good that is a result of IVF, namely a viable embryo for childless couples. Perhaps we should re-evaluate our position.
Thanks for the question.

Answer 7

hmmm...probobally because the protesters dont have a problem with it. interestingly thats usually where lesbian couples go to get pregnant.

basiclaly those who protest pick and choose what they hate (and therefore protest against)

most theists dont care about sperm, all they care about are things that resemble people. usually a fetus.

so heres the jist...theists dont think...especially those who protest...im sure if they could find somehting they dislikd theyd picket outside of one...but first they need to see a problem...

Answer 8

Good question! Why don't you start a letter-writing campaign to all the churches who send picketers out on pro-life missions.........get them to put their picketers where their mouth is or stfu!!!! I'll help.

I read a question just a minute ago, "if electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?"..........it seems to fit in with your question.

Answer 9

I also wonder, maybe God doesn't mean those people to have children. Maybe they're supposed to adopt or something.

It's like the Schaivo case: People were saying it was God's will that Terri live, but if it had been left solely to God, she'd have died when she firsthad her stroke.

*sigh* Hypocracy.

Answer 10

Because the lesbians that picket these places can't hit on the women coming out of a fertility clinic. heh heh