On March 6^th, the governor of Alabama signed a bill protecting IVF in the state following the Feb 16^th ruling of the Alabama Supreme Court that IVF embryos are “unborn (preborn) children”.

The problem we still have is that what the IVF lobby pushed through the legislature for the governor to sign continues to allow IVF facilities to make multiple ‘spare’ children, thereby exploiting the woman (they offer discounts if she agrees to ‘donate’ her ‘spare’ embryos (little children) to ‘science’ (to be sold for vivisection as chattel in the denatured biology of human embryo stem cell experimentation).

Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law retains the good of IVF while eliminating the bad.   Someone needs to introduce Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law immediately in the Alabama Legislature.  Article 3 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.”

When the IVF money making lobby protests, ask them WHY they are protesting.  The IVF clinics in the United States have the technology todo this ‘one child at a time’ (as the countries of Australia and New Zealand currently do).  Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law does not prevent them from assisting infertile couples to have a baby.  If these clinics are truly ‘only about helping infertile couples to have a child’, conceiving only one child at a time and allowing that child shelter in the womb of her mother before another child is conceived still complies with the purity of the reason for IVF in the first place.

Couples come to them with the highest human aspiration – wanting a child to love. The IVF facilities, however, have their own love – the LOVE OF MONEY – money gained by trafficking preborn children for vivisection and experimentation.  They want to go right on reaching out to hold the hands of the woman with tear filled eyes, desperate to have a child, assuring her that they are going to help her – as they press the papers in front of her, pointing to the signature line and saying, “Sign right here”.  She gets a discount if she agrees to their terms.

                                                                                    Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

                                                                                    R. Martin Palmer

P.S. This letter is written on the morning of Thursday, March 7^th, prior to the president’s State of the Union speech this evening.  The administration is seeking to make political hay out of the throwback from the Alabama Supreme Court case.  They plan to have in the balcony a woman who has benefited from IVF.

Now that this is being brought to the foreground of the nation’s attention, this is an ideal time for the legislatures of our nation’s red states to speak up and pass Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law.

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. 

“Follow the Money.”   Just when chief judge Tom Parker and his brethren of the Alabama Supreme Court hand down a win for preborn children even as human embryos, the IVF fertility clinic forces are lobbying the Alabama legislature to keep in place the status quo on how they go about in vitro fertilization.

This would be an ideal time for the Alabama legislature to pass Dr. Jerome Lejeune’s (the world dean of geneticists) Proposal of Law (link at the end of this article).

Article 3 of his proposal 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.”

“Follow the money.” IVF clinics want to keep doing what they have been doing – giving the wife hyper-ovulating drugs so that she produces multiple eggs at the same time and then fertilizing these multiple eggs with the husband’s sperm and then freezing the ‘leftover’ very tiny children ostensibly for the couple to come back at a later time if they choose to have another child or children. 

The IVF clinics offer a ‘discount’ for the IVF procedure if the wife will agree to donate her ‘spare’ embryos to ‘science’.  There is a price on the heads of these little ones because the IVF clinics sell them for the denatured biology of human embryo experimentation.

Dr. Lejeune put it well when he said, “It is not good to make ‘spare’ children.”  And it is certainly not good to sell ‘spare’ children to be vivisected in the experimenter’s lab for which experimenters receive huge grants on the promise that there will come from human embryo stem cell experimentation remedies for human maladies and disease.

Dr. Bill Hogan has told us that not a person on the planet has ever benefited from human embryo stem cell experimentation. The hope lies with adult stem cell experimentation (stem cells extracted from the patient as with a mere small scraping of skin cells from the arm which does not kill the human being).  Technicians then manipulate these adult stem cells and inject them back into the patient from whom they came and therefore they are not rejected by the patient.

The money making IVF forces will now lobby the Alabama legislature on bended knee with an emotional appeal, “Oh, please pass a law that ensures our right to help these poor infertile couples to conceive and have a child.”

If this is truly their goal, the passage of Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law ensures that.  If they come up with multiple technical reasons why this will hamper IVF clinics helping infertile couples there is every reason to be suspect.   Follow the money.

Alabama, God bless you and God bless the Alabama Supreme Court. You are leading the nation on the good cause of children yet to be. Lead on!

                                                  Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

                                                  R. Martin Palmer