{"id":289982,"date":"2023-04-29T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=289982"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:02:15","slug":"lila-rose-debunks-burning-ivf-clinic-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lila-rose-debunks-burning-ivf-clinic-scenario\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Live Action president Lila Rose debunks &#8216;burning IVF clinic&#8217; scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In the latest video in Live Action&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3ISPBoqBa1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro-Life Replies<\/a> series, the organization&#8217;s founder and president Lila Rose debunks a claim in which some say it&#8217;s impossible to be pro-life: the &#8220;burning IVF clinic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To describe the scenario, Rose asks viewers to imagine they&#8217;re in a burning IVF clinic and have to choose between saving a five-year-old child or a container with 10 frozen embryos. Because most people would instinctively save the five-year-old, Rose says abortion advocates have used that response to show that embryos don&#8217;t have equal value to people who have already been born; therefore, abortion should be permissible.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ISPBoqBa1A\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To show the fallacy of this argument, Rose makes a slight change to the scenario, asking viewers to instead imagine that they were forced to choose between a family member and a complete stranger. Natural instinct would lead anyone to choose their family member over the stranger, but that doesn&#8217;t negate in any way the stranger&#8217;s humanity or value, nor does it give anyone moral permission to actively kill strangers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the same way, a person&#8217;s choice to save a five-year-old over the embryos does not make the embryos less human or less valuable or give anyone moral permission to kill embryos,&#8221; she explains.<\/p>\n<p>Rose then presents another similar scenario, a sinking ship like the Titanic. In that event and others like it, women and children were the first urged to enter the lifeboats. But Rose points out that that doesn&#8217;t mean men were any less human than women and children, and it also doesn&#8217;t mean that we are allowed to kill innocent adult men.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both the burning building and sinking ship scenarios ask us whom we will save when we tragically can&#8217;t save everyone. As Rose points out, &#8220;Abortion, by distinction, is about directly and intentionally killing a child in the womb by dismemberment, lethal injection, starvation, or exsanguination, which is draining blood from the baby&#8217;s body. With the burning building, it is the fire that kills. With abortion, it is one stronger human, the abortionist, actively and intentionally killing another, weaker human being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In life, it is not always possible to save everyone,&#8221; she concludes. &#8220;But we should always strive to refrain from intentionally killing an innocent human being, including someone waiting to be born.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest video in Live Action&#8217;s Pro-Life Replies series, the organization&#8217;s founder and president Lila Rose debunks a claim in which some say it&#8217;s impossible to be pro-life: the &#8220;burning IVF clinic.&#8221; To describe the scenario, Rose asks viewers to imagine they&#8217;re in a burning IVF clinic and have to choose between saving a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":290001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,20722,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WATCH: Live Action president Lila Rose debunks &#039;burning IVF clinic&#039; scenario<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Viewers are asked to imagine they&#039;re in a burning IVF clinic and have to choose between saving a five-year-old child or a container with 10 frozen embryos.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lila-rose-debunks-burning-ivf-clinic-scenario\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WATCH: Live Action president Lila Rose debunks &#039;burning IVF clinic&#039; 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