{"id":2617651,"date":"2026-06-23T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-freak-out-because-evil-trump-admin-embraces-fetal-personhood-ideology\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:36:51","slug":"libs-freak-out-because-evil-trump-admin-embraces-fetal-personhood-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-freak-out-because-evil-trump-admin-embraces-fetal-personhood-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Trump Admin Embraces &#8216;Fetal Personhood Ideology&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Flibs-freak-out-because-evil-trump-admin-embraces-fetal-personhood-ideology%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=2617651&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 article discusses the controversy surrounding the language used to describe human embryos, especially in the context of federal programs and media narratives. It criticizes narratives that dehumanize embryos by referring to them as simply cells and advocates for recognizing embryos as human beings. The HuffPost is highlighted for its opposition to this framing, claiming it <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >promotes fetal personhood laws<\/a> and harms reproductive freedoms, especially criticizing the Trump management&#8217;s shift to calling embryos &#8220;children&#8221; in federal grant descriptions. Pro-lifers and ethical advocates argue that acknowledging embryos as human life would pose legal and moral challenges to abortion rights and the fertility industry, which often destroys surplus embryos.The piece emphasizes the importance of ethical IVF practices that respect embryos as human beings, critiquing the current industry practices that produce and discard multiple embryos.It cites examples like Hannah Strege, an adopted embryo, who advocates for responsible treatment of embryos, and calls for stricter regulation of IVF to prevent the unneeded destruction of human life. The article concludes with a call for more active measures, including embryo adoption and systemic reforms, beyond mere wording changes in policy.  <\/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>Humans have used language to belittle their enemies and strip them of their humanity for centuries. Yet in America today, many on the left believe that liberal culture has summited the mountain of progress and demonized all words that tear down.<\/p>\n<p>  But if the left really wants to be the rhetorical protector of the innocent, then it should stop whitewashing IVF as a scientific procedure that only affects mindless cells, and start calling IVF embryos what they really are: human children.<\/p>\n<p>However, that is exactly what the Huff Post did <em>not <\/em>do.<\/p>\n<p>The radically liberal news site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-admin-embryo-child-grant-program_n_6a32dd6ae4b0dfdabce9ca40?utm_campaign=MSN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smeared<\/a> the Trump Administration last week for changing the language in the federal <a href=\"https:\/\/files.simpler.grants.gov\/opportunities\/167d140c-52a1-4ebb-99be-ecddf378082d\/attachments\/13b771a1-4ca4-4420-a526-efabdbccb0da\/PA-EAA-26-001_EAA_NOFO.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Embryo Adoption Awareness and Services<\/a> (EAA) program to refer to frozen embryos as children in need of homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe grant has seemingly transformed into a vehicle for anti-abortion rhetoric and fetal personhood ideology,\u201d the Huff Post claimed, and quoted the leftist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-need-abortion-pill-reversal-more-than-ever\/\" title=\"We Need Abortion Pill Reversal More Than Ever\">pro-abortion director<\/a> of the National Women\u2019s Law Center calling the grant \u201ca Trojan horse\u201d that the Trump Administration used to \u201cinsert something that is incredibly harmful,\u201d namely, recognizing embryos as humans.<\/p>\n<p>The EAA grant program operates the federal \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opa.hhs.gov\/grant-programs\/embryo-adoption-awareness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">frozen embryo adoption public awareness campaign<\/a>,\u201d and promotes adopting already created, frozen embryonic children instead of creating more. Grant recipients must refuse to engage in \u201cembryo-destructive research \u2026 discarding or destroying human embryos,\u201d or \u201ccreate new human embryos.\u201d The Huff Post claims that the program previously focused on helping \u201cLGBTQIA+ couples looking to adopt embryos.\u201d Now, it emphasizes faith-based organizations that recognize embryos as humans as the primary recipients of the grant.<\/p>\n<p>The Huff Post\u2019s greatest fear from the language changes is not even about IVF. They believe that accurately calling embryos children will promote the \u201clong-held conservative belief that fetuses \u2014 or even fertilized eggs or embryos \u2014 should have the same rights and protected class status as any other child.\u201d This logically will \u201cpass personhood laws that would reinterpret when life legally begins and instantly criminalize abortion at all stages of pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the Huff Post and the left are afraid of logic. Now that even legal language exposes the reality of personhood even at the embryonic level, the left cannot use \u201cit\u2019s only a clump of cells\u201d rhetoric to justify abortion, because if life starts at conception, then both the embryo in a mother or frozen in time is human life.<\/p>\n<p>A secondary fear of the left exposed in the Huff Post piece is that the massive \u201cbuild and buy your own baby\u201d IVF corporations will cease to exist now that embryos are reframed as human beings. Most IVF companies create <a href=\"https:\/\/vrindafertility.com\/how-many-embryos-produced-in-one-ivf-cycle\/\">10 embryos per customer<\/a>, but only implant one to three. The rest are frozen with an uncertain future or destroyed. That means for every 100 customers, 700 to 900 children are indefinitely frozen or murdered. As the president of <a href=\"https:\/\/thembeforeus.com\/\">Them Before Us <\/a>Katy Faust <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\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cthe <em>baby-making<\/em> fertility industry destroys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2022\/07\/83359\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more little lives<\/a> annually than the <em>baby-taking abortion <\/em>industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A far less profitable but ethical form of IVF only creates and implants one embryo at a time. This is the type of IVF the EAA program supports by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-begins-debating-democrats-mammoth-3-5-trillion-budget\/\" title=\"Senate Begins Debating Democrats\u2019 Mammoth .5 Trillion Budget\">restricting federal funding<\/a> to organizations that do not discard \u201cleft-over\u201d children.<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama Supreme Court already took a similar stance on IVF two years ago. It <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/20\/what-the-alabama-supreme-courts-ruling-on-frozen-embryos-means-for-big-fertility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled<\/a> that all unborn children, including embryos created through IVF, are humans under the state\u2019s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. The ruling was based on fundamentally Christian principles that everyone is made in the image of God and each person\u2019s worth exceeds what humans can calculate at any stage in life. Alabama still allows IVF in the state, but it must be done ethically, not commoditizing or throwing out \u201cundesirable\u201d or \u201cunnecessary\u201d children.<\/p>\n<p>However, many pro-lifers reject IVF altogether in its current unregulated state because it promotes <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/opinions\/a-baby-isnt-a-consumer-product-1777342748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eugenics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/parents-ivf-genetic-makeup-testing-2081470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">makes humans customizable products<\/a>, and <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\">rips children away<\/a> from their biological parents to place them with homosexual adults.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first adopted frozen embryo, Hannah Strege, holds this view. Strege\u2019s biological parents created 32 embryos through IVF and froze 20, including Strege. Strege\u2019s adoptive parents reached out to the now deceased Dr. James Dobson at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Focus on the Family<\/a>, looking for advice on adopting embryos. At the same time, Hannah\u2019s biological parents reached out to Dobson, asking for help getting their frozen children adopted. Dobson connected the two, leading to Hannah\u2019s adoption three years after she was frozen. She was the only one of the 20 embryos to survive the thaw and implantation.<\/p>\n<p>To Strege, IVF can be done ethically if embryos are treated as the humans they are. \u201cI believe that life begins at conception \u2026 I don\u2019t have to look at, like, my faith or religion to know that fact, that\u2019s a scientific fact \u2026 a new human being doesn\u2019t come into play at any other part in the developmental process,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Ethical IVF means that the fertility industry and the federal government regulate the IVF market so that there is no donor egg or sperm, which creates children who will never know their biological parents, no surrogacy that leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/10\/republicans-launch-bills-to-stop-child-predators-and-foreigners-from-buying-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">homosexual couples purchasing children<\/a>, and no \u201ccreating more embryos than you\u2019re willing to implant, and then no freezing or discarding of embryos,\u201d Strege said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Strege mentioned that \u201cI haven\u2019t seen even one place do it that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the best and easiest ways to fix that is for the Trump Administration to do more than change a few words in a grant program. Strege told the Federalist:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What [Trump] did with changing the wording was kind of like a footnote or an asterisk \u2026 he\u2019s [still] supporting IVF in its entirety. He thinks by just adding the embryo adoption aspect, he\u2019s done his part, when that\u2019s not the case. We can\u2019t keep practicing IVF the way that it currently stands, because we\u2019re not going to save babies that way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe need people to adopt embryos and give embryos a chance at life \u2026 while also regulating the system, so more lives don\u2019t end up in freezers,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftists avoid calling embryos human children, risking lives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4304,"featured_media":2617652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/omurden-cengiz-G2iJF_aUws-unsplash.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4310,81251,5894,32640],"class_list":["post-2617651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-abortion","tag-fetal-rights","tag-politics","tag-trump-administration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/omurden-cengiz-G2iJF_aUws-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617651","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\/4304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617655,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617651\/revisions\/2617655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2617652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}