Dave Pepper does a deep dive into the thinking that lies behind the increasing push, now led by evangelicals like the Southern Baptists, to ban IVF. As he notes, there's the insistence in key documents like Project 2025 and Heritage Foundation essays that Protestants need to adopt the Catholic magisterial notion that a human person is fully present from the moment of conception.
The mindset lying behind this command to subdue and take dominion over reproductive technology is a mindset that wants to subdue and dominate anyone who questions the minoritarian, religion-based view that a human person is fully present from the moment of conception. This is a call to coerce dissenters, to use law to subdue and dominate the majority.
And for that reason it should concern all of us who will be the subdued and dominated.