wdlindsy ,
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Jill Filipovic explains why we should care about Southern Baptists and IVF:

"They are a bellwether for where Evangelicals are headed. And they're coming for fertility medicine."

As she notes, at their recent convention, Southern Baptists voted to oppose IVF and to pressure lawmakers to curtail it.


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https://jill.substack.com/p/why-you-should-care-about-southern

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wdlindsy OP ,
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@paninid @dgoldsmith I read them as seeking to impose peculiar theological dogma they've derived from their connection to right-wing Catholics on a pluralistic secular democracy in which the majority of us do not in the least buy that dogma.

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@wdlindsy @dgoldsmith

You are not wrong.

wdlindsy OP ,
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She writes,

"This isn’t just an SBC resolution serving as guidance for faithful SBC members, who have now been told to not avail themselves of IVF. It is a call for Southern Baptists to try to impose their radical theology on the rest of us.

The SBC is the largest Evangelical group in the US."


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wdlindsy OP ,
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'It’s working: While many Republicans claim to support IVF, just days after the SBC vote, the party blocked a bill in Congress that would have protected the procedure nationwide."


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