In reply to: Not really pro life posted by vermin05
on the practical consequences of this ruling by examining the motivations of prolife folks in general?
He seemed to be insinuating some hypocrisy on the part of the prolife crowd, but I don't think that's true based on what they interpret prolife to mean.
The embryos created for this procedure are only created for this procedure they would not exist without it. Is there a really crummy capture rate? Yup, but a small percent at life sure beats no chance. To co-opt an argument usually used by the abortion crowd, what if that baby was the next Mozart, Nelson Mandela or Einstein?
And in case you were wondering my stance, I think IVF likely provides a window into how many embryos fail to embed in the uterus. While never studied in vivo, if IVF success rate is 35-40% I think it’s fair to assume that naturally it’s probably right around 50% success rate for implantation. Post implantation, odds of a birth shoots way up. If that’s true and you believe life begins at conception then you believe our creator kills half of all life when it’s nothing but a ball of cells. I don’t believe that, personally, and with zero scientific proof, I think life begins at implantation and something metaphysical happens when mother and child first touch. But that’s just my opinion.