WAPO: We are witnessing a war on women

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26. It's an ugly but entirely self-consistent stance to be against both abortion and IVF

Many anti-abortionists start from the premise "life begins at conception".

IVF involves fertilizing many, many eggs, far more than the number of pregnancies that will result, with many of the fertilized eggs being destroyed or discarded.

Being anti-abortion and pro-IVF is actually a more hypocritical position. More popular, but less self-consistent, unless you decide that "life begins at conception" isn't your premise, but that simply making as many babies as possible is your goal, regardless of how many embryos are sacrificed toward that end.