Getting Serious About IVF

Amy Welborn posts a bill introduced in the Kentucky legislature that would make it a felony to fertilize more than one egg during IVF.  Now I certainly have some concerns for my friends and family members who have pursued IVF, but I hardly consider their efforts felonious.  I'm open to being persuaded otherwise . . .

Rob

UPDATE: Jonathan Watson emailed me his take on what the legislature's intent might be:

I think that the legislature in Kentucky is attempting to end-round therapeutic cloning. I believe that many IVF procedures create 3 blastocysts (I am unsure of the exact technical designation at that point, although I think that "fertilized egg" is a misnomer) or more, of which usually only one implants. The others are either discarded or leave the body "naturally." However, one way around directly creating "therapeutic clones" would be to initiate IVF and use the unimplanted "baby" babies from which to harvest stem cells, thereby killing them. In essence . . . IVF aborts the unimplanted children automatically. Since they are not therapeutic clones, money from insurance companies which pays for IVF for couples could be indirectly used (whether federally-provided or not) to fund stem cell lines.