Murderous Family Values

 

Politicians from both sides are scrambling since the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that in-vitro fertilized embryos are human beings, and cannot be casually destroyed. This presumably makes common fertility treatments illegal. In-vitro fertilization almost always involves killing unwanted embryos.

Democrats hate this, because it implies abortion is illegal.

Republicans hate this, because it will prevent some from having a family. “Family values,” after all…

It is a useful reminder that “family values,” like nationalism, can easily come in conflict with morality. “Family values” are an idolatry.

The court decision is undoubtedly correct. The desire of an adult to have children does not trump the child’s right to life. Children are not pets, or toys, but are given to us as a sacred trust.