The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the US with 14 million members, voted to oppose in vitro fertilization (IVF) at its annual meeting. Roman Catholics also share the opposition to IVF.
From @WSJopinion: The Southern Baptists’ position on in vitro fertilization will be derided as strange and retrograde. But the destruction and commodification of human life is sufficiently important to risk derision, write @albertmohler and @andrewtwalk. https://t.co/t4ORdhb0m5
"I doubt very seriously that many of the Baptists who voted last week to anathematize IVF have any experience with it," David Von Drehle writes. "Let me tell them a little about it." https://t.co/sP7yGqU4m1
Given the Southern Baptist’s’ anti-IVF resolution at the convention and my own background as a PK in the denomination - I’ve had a lot of people DMing to ask my opinion. While I am not a Southern Baptist (and never have been in adulthood) I will say based on their theology this…
The Southern Baptist Convention — the largest Protestant denomination in the country, with 13 million members — adopted a resolution denouncing in vitro fertilization (IVF). @eugene_robinson has the latest: https://t.co/40jlzyVflI
The Southern Baptist Convention voted at its annual meeting on 14 June to oppose the use of IVF by its 14 million members, despite speeches in support. It is the largest Protestant denomination in the US. Roman Catholics also oppose IVF https://t.co/WYgXBWbDcO