{"id":2332326,"date":"2024-08-28T07:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pastor-twists-himself-in-knots-to-claim-being-pro-ivf-is-pro-life\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T07:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T11:10:57","slug":"pastor-twists-himself-in-knots-to-claim-being-pro-ivf-is-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pastor-twists-himself-in-knots-to-claim-being-pro-ivf-is-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Twists Himself In Knots To Claim Being Pro-IVF Is Pro-Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpastor-twists-himself-in-knots-to-claim-being-pro-ivf-is-pro-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2332326&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u2063 article \u200cdiscusses the controversies surrounding in vitro\u2062 fertilization (IVF) in \u200blight of Alabama&#8217;s Supreme\u2063 Court \u2063ruling and ongoing \u200dnational debates\u2063 on reproductive ethics. It critiques \u2062a viewpoint \u200dexpressed\u2064 by pro-life pastor Jeremiah Johnston, who, \u2063despite his qualifications,\u200b is\u2063 accused of misrepresenting both\u200b biological \u2063facts\u200d and\u200c Christian theology\u2063 concerning embryos and \u2063IVF.<\/p>\n<p>The author argues that\u2062 while Johnston shares \u2064his\u2064 personal pain regarding infertility, he fails to recognize that the real victims are often\u200d the countless embryos created but discarded in \u200dthe fertility process. The author\u200c emphasizes that Christians suffering from various longings\u2064 must accept God&#8217;s will instead of seeking \u2063to\u2062 fulfill\u2064 desires at the cost of innocent lives. They argue for a\u2064 theology that protects vulnerable\u2063 children, paralleling\u200b historical Christian stances \u2063against abortion and\u200c child \u2062sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>The piece condemns\u200d IVF \u200dfor its commodification of life, where embryos are\u200d treated as expendable, and points out the ethical implications of discarding embryos \u200dbased\u2064 on genetic criteria. It\u2064 disputes Johnston&#8217;s claim \u2064that an embryo does not\u200b equate to \u2064a child,\u200d asserting that life begins at fertilization, and highlights the\u2063 distinction between natural miscarriages and the \u200cselective destruction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-making-babies-in-test-tubes-is-not-pro-life\/\" title=\"Why Creating Babies in Test Tubes Contradicts Pro-Life Beliefs\">lab-created embryos<\/a>. the \u200cauthor\u2062 calls for a\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcenany-rips-tapper-after-he-implies-shes-appealing-to-conspiracists\/\" title=\"McEnany Rips Tapper After He Implies She\u2019s Appealing To Conspiracists\">pro-life stance<\/a> that \u200bprotects all unborn children, including those created through IVF, and \u200dcritiques offhand rejections of those \u200dethical concerns in favor\u200c of individual desires.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Amid an ongoing national conversation around IVF after Alabama&rsquo;s Supreme Court ruling, attempts by both <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/23\/if-youre-pro-life-and-pro-family-you-cant-be-pro-ivf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/opinions\/expendable-lives-1709172961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats<\/a> to &ldquo;protect IVF,&rdquo; and Tim Walz&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Advo_Katy\/status\/1826069156917293380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stolen Vitro<\/a> controversy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2024\/08\/23\/im-a-pro-life-pastor-ivf-allowed-me-to-become-a-dad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dallas Morning News<\/a> published, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a pro-life pastor. IVF allowed me to become a dad.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/im-pro-life-pastor-who-very-thankful-miracle-ivf-allowed-me-become-dad?intcmp=tw_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reprinted it. Even though the author, Jeremiah Johnston, has a Ph.D., M.A., M.Div., and B.A., he gets both biology and Christianity wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As usual with matters of marriage and family, the adult frames himself (and his wife) as victims. Johnston details the suffering they experienced due to infertility. While infertility <em>is<\/em> incredibly painful, when we get IVF wrong &mdash; or any parenthood question &mdash; it&rsquo;s the hundreds of thousands of lives discarded and frozen by the fertility industry who are the actual victims, not the adults.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know what his pastoral duties have involved, but my Baptist pastor-turned-Navy chaplain husband and I have been in ministry for 30 years. And I&rsquo;ll tell you something true: Everyone suffers. Nearly every Christian I know has some longing &mdash; let&rsquo;s call it &ldquo;a thorn in their side&rdquo; &mdash; to which God says, &ldquo;My grace is sufficient for you.&rdquo; Whether that&rsquo;s unwanted same-sex attraction, unwanted singleness, longing for a healed marriage, a wayward son, a disabled daughter, chronic illness, or infertility &mdash; it&rsquo;s hard to name a Christian to whom God doesn&rsquo;t seem to be saying, &ldquo;Not on this side of heaven.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our longings, even for good things, are not a license to take matters of life, &agrave; la Sarah and Hagar, into our own hands &mdash; because the result is the transfer of suffering from adult to child. Yet that&rsquo;s the path Johnston and his wife traveled, pursuing &ldquo;the modern medical miracle of IVF&rdquo; and even suggesting that God &ldquo;inspired [them] to do everything [they] could to become pregnant.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here Johnston communicates a misunderstanding of God&rsquo;s will for his people. The Lord does not &ldquo;inspire us&rdquo; to fulfill our own desires regardless of the cost, especially if it forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2024\/april-web-only\/surrogacy-isnt-going-away-but-evangelicals-should-oppose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the weak to sacrifice for the strong<\/a>. Rather, God mandates that his people <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/opinions\/children-and-the-christian-revolution-1697747323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defend children<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the first century, child protection required rejecting abortion and infanticide, adopting children who had been &ldquo;exposed,&rdquo; and standing against the sexualization and abuse of children. Today, we find ourselves manifesting our &ldquo;pure and undefiled religion before God&rdquo; in the same ways: rejecting abortion, adopting children, and standing against their sexualization and abuse. While we are no longer defending children&rsquo;s right to life by battling the gruesome first-century practice of infant &ldquo;exposure,&rdquo; we are battling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-is-in-the-national-defense-authorization-act-ahead-of-house-floor-vote\/\" title=\"What&#039;s in the National Defense Authorization Act before House vote?\">21st-century threat<\/a> of lab-created babies who are being mass-produced, commodified, and treated to eugenic-level screenings by a virtually regulation-free, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-of-taxpayer-funded-antiracist-group-funneled-nearly-300k-to-husbands-law-firm\/\" title=\"President of Taxpayer-Funded Antiracist Group Funneled Nearly 0K to Husband\u2019s Law Firm\">multibillion-dollar industry<\/a>. Christians can have no part in it.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing the &ldquo;I am the victim&rdquo; narrative, Johnston shares how they had to accept the &ldquo;financial and emotional risk&rdquo; of IVF but gave no specifics on the untold number of children who lost their lives through the process. This is the crux of the anti-IVF position. It&rsquo;s not because we deny their longing for children nor reject that Johnston and his wife would be wonderful parents. I assume they are. It&rsquo;s because we are clear-eyed about the unfathomable destruction this industry wrecks on the lives of our smallest citizens &mdash; numbers that make the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/257066\/more-human-embryos-destroyed-through-ivf-than-abortion-every-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abortion industry<\/a> jealous.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston then erects several well-stuffed strawmen. The apologist claims, &ldquo;Women struggling with infertility are being shamed with religious jargon with which some claim IVF lacks the &lsquo;mystery of natural conception&rsquo; or that children conceived through IVF are less than human.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I work closely with the most staunch pro-life, and therefore IVF-critical, voices including Allie Beth Stuckey, Lila Rose, the Colson Center, Kristan Hawkins, Seth Gruber, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1736454420?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stephanie Gray Connors<\/a>. After checking my notes, I found that exactly zero say or believe that IVF babies are &ldquo;less than human.&rdquo; In fact, we repeatedly state that every child born through IVF is precious and worthy of protection. We are <em>so serious <\/em>about child dignity that it forms the basis of our IVF opposition &mdash; we have the audacity to actually believe that <em>every<\/em> child created via IVF deserves protection, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/life\/report\/why-the-ivf-industry-must-be-regulated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">93<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gop-attempts-define-position-discarding-ivf-embryos-pro-life-stances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">97<\/a> percent who do not make it through this process alive.<\/p>\n<p>Christian critics oppose IVF not because it lacks &ldquo;the mystery of natural conception&rdquo; but because ethicists and theologians, in both Catholic and Protestant circles, understand that God intends for sex, marriage, and babies to be an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakpoint.org\/redefining-parent-is-bad-for-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indissoluble triad.<\/a> When man tears asunder any one from the other two, children are always the victims. That is certainly the case with IVF &mdash; which separates babies from sex &mdash; as is evident by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0015028222000012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1.5 million embryos<\/a> in perpetual frozen storage, the undisclosed number of little lives donated to research, and the small humans discarded because they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4429433\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not genetically &ldquo;fit&rdquo;<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/article\/who-should-regulate-preimplantation-genetic-diagnosis-united-states\/2018-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrong sex<\/a>. It&rsquo;s not a &ldquo;mystery&rdquo; problem. It&rsquo;s a child victimization problem.<\/p>\n<p>Then Johnston states what I can only hope is some kind of misprint. &ldquo;An embryo is not synonymous with a child,&rdquo; he tells us, noting that &ldquo;attach[ing] in a mother&rsquo;s womb&rdquo; is the actual sacred moment, not conception.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Christian ethicist friend remarked that by this bizarre logic, an embryo born via a (thankfully not-yet-existent) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2024\/04\/93153\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">artificial womb<\/a> would not be a child. For a <a href=\"https:\/\/christianthinkers.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guy<\/a> like Johnston who aims to &ldquo;teach Christians to become Thinkers and Thinkers to Become Christians,&rdquo; his rationale is neither thoughtful nor Christian. When a supposed &ldquo;pro-life&rdquo; pastor has to adopt abortionist talking points, something other than orthodoxy and biology is at work.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there was a time when our origins were more mysterious, so we charted life as beginning at &ldquo;quickening,&rdquo; when a woman could feel the baby move. But Johnston lives in the 21st century when he can open an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Before-Are-Born-Essentials-Embryology\/dp\/032331337X?tag=nationalreviewon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">embryology textbook<\/a> or type a few words into Google and discover that biologists agree a new human life is formed not at birth, nor quickening, nor even at implantation, but <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36629778\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at fertilization<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>When sperm and egg meet, a new genetic code is created, and at that moment life begins. Call it what you will, it is without question the very earliest stages of human life &mdash; the same origin that I, you, Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, the five of his living IVF children, and the undisclosed number of his IVF embryos which were deselected for implantation all have in common.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Johnston doesn&rsquo;t deny that embryos are lost in the IVF process &mdash; how could he? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ncrawfordmd\/status\/1522676693160312832?s=20&amp;t=4I9iZnIZwk63lTXp1HxBHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fertility doctors<\/a> unashamedly broadcast that grading, selecting, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/obgyn\/infertility\/108932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discarding embryos<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alabama-supreme-court-from-embryos-161390f0758b04a7638e2ddea20df7ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critical to their business model<\/a>. Instead, Johnston explains that discarding unwanted lab-created babies is OK because some natural pregnancies fail too. <\/p>\n<p>While it&rsquo;s true that not all babies conceived the old-fashioned way will come to term, 100 percent of those babies at least have a <em>chance<\/em> at life. This stands in stark contrast to the lab-created babies who will be frozen or discarded before they ever know the warmth of their mother&rsquo;s womb. From an ethical and biblical perspective, there&rsquo;s a vast difference between spontaneous miscarriages and adults determining which little lives should live or die.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But then Johnston stumbles into truly unscientific territory by asserting that the &ldquo;female body does naturally [create multiple embryos] throughout its life&hellip;&rdquo; Here the reader, or homeschooled sixth grader, will note that the female body does not create multiple embryos, nor even single embryos. For that, the female body requires a contribution from a male body. But at this point, it&rsquo;s clear Johnston is reaching for any justification for his anti-life, anti-Christian choices. And he does so by bending biological reality.<\/p>\n<p>He then takes a page from supporters of abortion by seeking to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/w9qTdjvbFuU?t=1530&amp;si=HE9jnC_1eN85Za8p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">redefine<\/a> the pro-life position: &ldquo;The whole purpose of being pro-life is to see the value in children and help moms and dads enjoy their God-given ability to raise them.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Hm. NO. The whole purpose of being pro-life is to protect children&rsquo;s lives from forces seeking to snuff them out because adult desire is being elevated above their fundamental right to life. And unfortunately, when it comes to embryonic children, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-reproductive-technology-advances-remember-just-because-we-can-doesnt-mean-we-should\/\" title=\"As Reproductive Technology Advances, Remember: Just Because We Can Doesn\u2019t Mean We Should\">baby-making industry<\/a> of IVF is racking up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2022\/07\/83359\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">numbers that surpass<\/a> the baby-taking industry of abortion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He wraps up by telling us that &ldquo;prohibiting IVF will indeed prevent children from entering our world.&rdquo; The stomach-churning reality is IVF intentionally prevents the vast majority of the children it creates from entering this world already. The 2 percent of children born via IVF today are only a fraction of those who had their unfortunate beginning in a laboratory. IVF is a death sentence for the majority of lives it creates.<\/p>\n<p>If he were honest, Johnston&rsquo;s headline would have been, &ldquo;I wanted a thing, therefore biology and theology needed to bend so I could have it.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christianity has a name for that. It&rsquo;s <em>idolatry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of a national debate on IVF following Alabama&#8217;s Supreme Court decision, as well as efforts from both Republicans and Democrats to &#8220;protect IVF&#8221; and Tim Walz&#8217;s Stolen Vitro issue, the Dallas Morning News featured an article titled \u201cI\u2019m a pro-life pastor. IVF allowed me to become a dad,\u201d which was also shared by Fox News. The author, Jeremiah Johnston, holds multiple degrees including a Ph.D., but he misrepresents both biological facts and Christian principles.<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case in discussions about marriage and family, Johnston portrays himself and his wife as victims of their infertility struggles. While infertility can be deeply painful, it is crucial to recognize that when we mishandle IVF or any issues surrounding parenthood, the real victims are not the adults but rather the countless lives that are either discarded or frozen by the fertility industry.<\/p>\n<p>Having been involved in ministry for 30 years alongside my husband\u2014who transitioned from being a Baptist pastor to serving as a Navy chaplain\u2014I can attest that everyone experiences suffering in some form. Most Christians I know carry some form of longing\u2014a challenge God addresses with His grace. This could manifest as unwanted same-sex attraction, singleness, marital strife, wayward children, chronic illness, or infertility; it seems every Christian faces something for which God says \u201cNot on this side of heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our desires\u2014even those for good things\u2014do not justify taking life into our own hands like Sarah did with Hagar; doing so merely shifts suffering from adults onto children. Yet this is precisely what Johnston and his wife chose when they pursued &#8220;the modern medical miracle of IVF,&#8221; even suggesting divine inspiration guided their quest for pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston\u2019s perspective reflects a misunderstanding of God&#8217;s intentions for His people. God does not inspire us to fulfill our desires at any cost\u2014especially if it means sacrificing vulnerable lives for those who are stronger. Historically speaking, protecting children has meant opposing abortion and infanticide while adopting abandoned children; today\u2019s equivalent involves rejecting abortion practices while also standing against child commodification within an unregulated fertility industry.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing with his victim narrative, Johnston mentions accepting \u201cfinancial and emotional risks\u201d associated with IVF without acknowledging how many children lose their lives during this process\u2014the core argument against IVF isn&#8217;t about denying anyone&#8217;s desire for parenthood or doubting their potential as parents; it&#8217;s about recognizing the immense harm inflicted upon countless innocent lives by this industry.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston constructs several strawman arguments claiming that women facing infertility are shamed by religious rhetoric suggesting that IVF lacks &#8220;the mystery of natural conception&#8221; or implies that such conceived children are somehow less human. However, prominent pro-life advocates do not assert these views; instead they affirm every child born through IVF deserves protection\u2014including those who do not survive due to high attrition rates during treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Critics oppose IVF because ethical considerations highlight how sex within marriage should be inseparable from procreation\u2014a principle violated by separating conception from its natural context through technologies like IVF which lead to significant loss among embryos created in labs.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston makes an alarming statement asserting \u201can embryo is not synonymous with a child,\u201d claiming true sanctity begins only once implantation occurs in utero\u2014a viewpoint challenged by many ethicists who argue life begins at fertilization when sperm meets egg creating unique genetic material indicative of new human life.<\/p>\n<p>While he acknowledges embryo loss during IVFs process\u2014something fertility specialists openly admit is part of their practice\u2014he attempts to normalize discarding embryos based on comparisons with spontaneous miscarriages despite fundamental differences between natural losses versus deliberate decisions made regarding lab-created embryos\u2019 fates.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover he inaccurately claims female bodies naturally produce multiple embryos throughout life without male contribution\u2014a clear misunderstanding reflecting desperation rather than sound reasoning behind justifying anti-life choices linked directly back towards bending biological truths out-of-shape justifications rooted solely within personal desires over ethical realities surrounding embryonic existence itself!<\/p>\n<p>Finally Johnston redefines what being pro-life means: stating its purpose lies solely around valuing children&#8217;s worth while helping parents enjoy raising them\u2014but fundamentally being pro-life centers around safeguarding vulnerable lives threatened under adult-driven motivations prioritizing personal wants above inherent rights granted unto all living beings regardless how they were conceived!<\/p>\n<p>He concludes ominously warning prohibiting IVFs would prevent future births altogether ignoring stark reality wherein majority created via such methods never see light outside laboratory confines already! If honest headline would read: &#8220;I wanted something therefore biology &amp; theology must conform accordingly.&#8221; Christianity recognizes this behavior aptly termed idolatry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1931,"featured_media":2332327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-11.16.04%E2%80%AFAM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6733,32468,14117,8347,10248],"class_list":["post-2332326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-controversy","tag-ivf","tag-pastor","tag-pro-life","tag-religion"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-11.16.04%E2%80%AFAM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2332327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}