Are you in favor of your tax dollars going toward paying to maintain and keep the embryos alive that are currently "living" in IVF clinics?

If the embryos that are in IVF clinics are considered to be “a life,” then are you in favor of your tax dollars going toward the maintenance required to keep those embryos living? Staffs need to be paid, buildings need power and heat and computers, the embryos probably need a perfect environment to exist.

This would be no different than if a baby were born and needed extensive medical intervention, due to a genetic abnormality or a physical issue (severe cerebral palsy, for example), and would need tube feedings, suctioning (of the lungs). These places exist. My friend’s mom, a nurse, worked at one, formerly referred to as a “home for the retarded” where severely impaired children live and require around the clock nursing care. She suctioned the babies and children, and they got tube feedings, and were mostly bedbound.

Would you be willing to pay the IVF clinics for the same, in the form of Medicaid or other government assistance?

I’m betting they’re gearing up for asking for financial help from the government to keep the clinics running, to maintain the lives that exist in the tubes.

If you think of that embryo as a life, does it have a right to be kept alive, and if so, how?