IVF is Morally Wrong Because It Destroys Human Beings

Last February, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling on the status of human embryos created via in vitro fertilization (IVF) — a ruling that had ironic results. Rather than find that human beings created in this manner represent things of limited value, the court — siding with parents whose embryonic children were destroyed against their wishes via lax security at the clinic where they were stored — ruled that the embryos were persons within the meaning of Alabama law.

The media and popular reaction to the decision was swift ...