Chief Judge Tom Parker, in this wonderful Alabama Supreme Court case respecting the lives of preborn children even as human embryos, pointed out that in Australia and New Zealand “prevailing ethical standards dictate that physicians usually make only one embryo at a time.”
So no matter what the IVF lobby in our own nation tells you, IVF can be done without making ‘spare’ children.
Judge Parker goes on to point out that the European community is not far behind in avoiding making ‘spare’ children to be orphaned to the deep freeze of cryopreservation or treated as chattel and sold for vivisection in human embryo stem cell experimentation. Judge Parker also stated that Italy goes a step further “banning cryopreservation of embryos except when a bona fide health risk or force majeure prevented the embryos from being transferred immediately after their creation.”
We need to make Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law the law of the land. In Article 3 of his proposed law, the last paragraph provides in pertinent part:
“No human embryo can be submitted to any exploitation whatsoever. The pursuit of its continued development until its term, in the organism of its mother, must be offered to each embryo before another embryo is conceived.”
Innovations in technology necessarily require new law. In the instance of new IVF technology which has been with us now for 40 some years, Australia, New Zealand, the European community and even Italy are doing a better job respecting the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child from that child’s beginning even as a human embryo than we are doing in the United States. Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law is a wise and good law – and good laws are good and wise for any state. The states need to lead the way, beginning with the State of Alabama, in passing Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law.
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