The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology published new guidelines today for the process of eliminating multiple embryos prior to birth. American Life League President Judie Brown said the guidelines contain serious error.
"The term 'non-selective embryo reduction' is nothing more than a high sounding name for abortion—the direct killing of a human being existing from fertilization on," said Mrs. Brown. "The single cell zygote is a human being, and discussion of ways to discard or otherwise destroy certain of these children is abhorrent."
Dr. Watson Bowes, a clinical professor of obstetrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, helped write the guidelines. He claimed that "this is a problem more and more parents will have to face, as current technology advances and makes these kinds of multiple births more common."
However, Mrs. Brown said that's not the answer. "Until such time as clinicians can be honest with their patients and are willing to provide them reproductive assistance that is in moral agreement with the Hippocratic oath," she said, "we recommend a moratorium on all forms of assisted reproductive technology. In vitro fertilization is itself immoral and a violation of natural law."
