Bracey Harris is a national reporter for NBC News, based in Jackson, Mississippi.
The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, came out against in vitro fertilization at its annual meeting Wednesday. Delegates in Indianapolis voted for the resolution that also urged the denomination’s members “to advocate for the government to restrain actions inconsistent with the dignity and value of every human being, which necessarily includes frozen embryonic human beings.
The SBC resolution argued, “though all children are to be fully respected and protected, not all technological means of assisting human reproduction are equally God-honoring or morally justified.” Although the resolution expresses grief for couples experiencing infertility, it encourages members to “promote adoption” and “to consider adopting frozen embryos in order to rescue those who are eventually to be destroyed.
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