The Church is right again!
From Rod–well DUH!!! (my emphases in bold)
IVF
Matt Yglesias writes: “I’m also always curious as to where the opponents of stem cell research stand on issues related to in-vitro fertilization.”His point — and it’s a good one — is that if you oppose embryonic stem-cell research because it takes a fully human life, then you are logically bound to oppose in vitro fertilization, because that process results in the creation of more embryos — that is, people, to the anti-ESCR crowd — which will inevitably be discarded.
Yglesias is right, which is why I think IVF should be outlawed. Of course it won’t be outlawed, and in fact there is no meaningful constituency opposing it. Reluctantly, I have to admit that if the logical contradiction were put to anti-ESCR politicians, the result would be not a gain in converts to the anti-IVF side, but the loss of proponents on the anti-ESCR side. I don’t see how you can be in favor of one but not the other.
In fact, I’d guess we’d sooner see abortion outlawed in this country than IVF. Why? Because IVF has been thoroughly mainstreamed by the middle class. There’s no “ick” factor. And hey, it makes babies; what, you’re against babies? You’re against human happiness? Etc.
If you buy that moral reasoning — and I do not — then on what grounds can you oppose ESCR?
You know, I love it when the Church wins another round in the Logic Wars. Isn’t it great? 
