In an effort to raise awareness about embryo adoption, the U.S. government officially recognized unborn children as human beings.
It’s a seemingly small wording change to an old grant program, but leftists are calling the move “a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s pursuit of fetal personhood.”
- What happens next?
- Will it change Trump’s inaction on abortion?
- Will this pave the way for unborn children to be nationally protected by the Constitution?
It all started in June when the Trump administration invited nonprofits and other organizations to earn federal funding by promoting embryo adoption. This isn’t new. President George W. Bush created the Embryo Adoption Awareness and Services grant in 2002 to give some unborn babies created in IVF a second chance instead of being killed or frozen indefinitely.
This time, however, the Department of Health and Human Services raised eyebrows when it published its new proposal. Throughout the document, the department correctly and consistently called frozen embryos “children.”
Most of the time, these applications use clinical terms that make unborn human beings sound like clumps of cells or “icy, microscopic biological material in a test tube,” as The Guardian puts it.
But the Trump administration asserted that frozen embryos are “children who already exist…“
No ambiguity. No whitewashing. Just the facts: Human embryos are human beings.
While the document itself doesn’t make a big difference, the language is significant. Recognizing human embryos as children is a step toward protecting human embryos as children.
Then comes the question… If the Trump administration agrees that embryos are children, when will they take action to save these children from abortion?
Today, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice effectively allow abortion pills to be mailed to women in all 50 states, bypassing Pro-Life laws.
President Trump could immediately order the FDA to revoke a Biden-era policy that allows abortion pills to be shipped in the mail. He could even shrink the timeframe that abortion pills can be used in pregnancy – currently 10 weeks but it used to be 7 weeks. Or, even better, President Trump could tell the FDA to completely revoke approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
However, that would still leave unborn children at risk. Liberal U.S. doctors said they would just use a different pill to kill babies in the womb if they can’t prescribe mifepristone. Plus, overseas pharmacies aren’t subject to the FDA. They can still mail abortion pills even with the tightest regulations.
That’s why we’re calling on President Trump to stop mail-order abortions through the Department of Justice. The U.S. Postal Service and law enforcement can block abortion pills in the mail (no matter where they came from) and prosecute senders.
Tell President Trump to stop mail-order abortions!
On top of that, the Trump administration’s recognition of embryos as children sheds light on the shocking abuse babies suffer in in-vitro fertilization.
Because IVF clinics create way more embryos than what they’ll actually implant, over 1 million babies are frozen in storage in the United States alone. Many others are destroyed. Still, others are exploited and killed through medical research.
Embryo creation and long-term storage is not a small or abstract problem. Plus, as misguided lawmakers try to increase IVF with little to no regulation, the number of frozen children will only grow.
These babies deserve the lives, families, and love that every other child does.
Some Pro-Lifers argue that embryo adoption perpetuates a process and industry that endangers babies in the first place.
However, most Pro-Life advocates see embryo adoption as a solution to rescue America’s frozen children. They say it’s an act of charity toward preborn babies rather than “fertility treatment” for adults.
That said, we hope that the federal government’s recognition of embryos as children will spur new policies to save babies from abortion and IVF. Personhood should extend to all preborn babies, whether fertilized in-vitro or conceived naturally in a womb.
We look ahead to a nation where every baby is protected from abortion, without exception.
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