How Christian Conservatives Are Planning for the Next Battle, on IVF

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(NY Times) The pivot seems clear. The Republican Party of the post-Roe era is sidelining anti-abortion activists. Project 2025, the conservative blueprint with innovative abortion bans, has been disavowed by Donald Trump. And the new party platform even promises to advance access to in vitro fertilization.

But as Trump distances himself from the anti-abortion revolution his own administration ushered in, a powerful battalion of conservative Christians has pushed ahead. In recent months, they have quietly laid the groundwork for their fight to restrict not only access to abortion but also to IVF.

They are planting seeds for their ultimate goal of ending abortion from conception, both within the Republican Party and beyond it. They face a tough political battle since their positions are largely unpopular and do not reflect majority opinion, particularly on IVF.

As they see it, their challenge spans generations, not simply a single political cycle. And their approach — including controlling regulatory language, state party platforms and the definition of when life begins — reflects an incremental strategy similar to the one activists used for decades to eventually overturn Roe v. Wade.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/christian-conservatives-planning-next-battle-181557599.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO&ncid=crm_19908-1202929-20240815-0&bt_user_id=Nbx3fx4G8bY%2BBly%2BSJFnGIbrNwAlLbn0ojgzw6ZoQXY801Dclw5vn3QutIrrLuZf&bt_ts=1723730268258

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1. There was a great discussion yesterday on Nicolle's show, about Kevin Roberts, the leader of Heritage Action ...

... who believes woman have an obligation to have children, no matter what. He is opposed to IVF because it gives women the option of postponing motherhood until later in life, and that shouldn't be allowed.

I posted more on this at: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219336110