As Jason Sattler notes, with the IVF debacle, Republicans are trying to lie re: what their "life begins at conception" mantra really means. But supporters like Lila Rose won't let them lie: shey says,
“Politicians cannot call themselves ‘pro-life,’ affirm the truth that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, and then enact laws that allow the callous killing of these preborn children simply because they were created through IVF."
"No one actually believes life begins at conception. They just say they do because it’s the only way to make sense of a fascist approach to reproduction. There has to be some point where the pregnant bodies become wards of the state.
For the far right, that has to be as soon as humanly possible, before anyone could possibly be sure that they are pregnant."
@wdlindsy
I was going to nitpick & say based on my experience that's not true and some people (not politicians) really do believe life begins at conception, but tbh it's more like they believe that they believe that, because no one—no one—actually lives their life in a way consistent with this belief. It's impossible.
You would have to believe that a baby dies every time a fertilized egg does not implant, which means even aside from abortion, "unborn babies" are dying at an alarming rate.
@artemis Yes, since Jason Sattler points to what Lila Rose says, it's obvious that some people really do believe that contention. I read his point here to be that we're discovering from how Republicans are willing to engage in a charade as the IVF issue pushes their backs to the wall that many Republicans never really believed that mantra even as they parroted it and tried to impose it on all of us. And you're right about how biological fact makes this contention ridiculous.