Ryan would make Romney grandchildren illegal
The hypocrisies just keep coming, folks.
Fact: More than one Romney grandchild has been conceived using artificial insemination (IVF).
Fact: Veep candidate Ryan's "Sanctity of Human Life Act" would outlaw IV, essentially making criminals out of the Romney sons and their wives who used it to conceive.
How do you expect Romney will handle this not-so-little dilemma?
Background:
Ryan is a true believer with respect to pro-life politics. Stephanie Mincemer for Mother Jones magazine reveals that Ryan co-sponsored the Sanctity of Life Act, which, if passed, will define life as beginning at fertilization. This, in turn, could criminalize in vitro fertilization. Why? Because according to Mincemer, "Doctors typically create multiple embryos and then only implant the healthiest ones in the woman. Some of them stick and become babies, and some don't. The embryos that don't make it to the womb are either frozen for later use or destroyed." If Ryan’s act passes, “destroying” those embryos will be tantamount to murder in the eyes of the law.
Romney has children who have utilized in vitro fertilization (IVF).
The core problem is that there is a real conflict of interest at work. If Romney wants to be pro-life, he's going to have to bite the bullet and endorse a view of personhood that accepts full legal rights of protection beginning at conception.
But, how can he when his own grandchildren were produced by a process that destroys embryos?
- JaxsonRaineposted 12 years ago
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