There has been a lot of media buzz recently about in-vitro fertilization – or IVF for short. The ripple effects of a recent Alabama State Supreme Court ruling (8 to 1) declared that frozen human embryos are human beings and are entitled to civil rights protections.

Now, there is no doubt that IVF has been a blessing to many women who have had fertility problems. Thanks to this wonderful medical technology there have been more than one million babies born in the U.S. using IVF – that’s approximately 60K babies born annually.

We celebrate these precious lives!

However, as Christians, have we paused to think deeply about the downside to IVF treatments? Have we thought biblically about the ethics of creating dozens of human embryos knowing that more than 60 percent of them will either be miscarried or discarded?

If we believe that life begins at conception, and we know that an embryo is the initial stage of life, we should be concerned at how the corporate media is spinning this issue. Are these lives not fearfully and wonderfully created in the image of God?

After all, each one of us started our lives as an embryo. The callous disregard of frozen human embryos is a pro-life issue that we all should care about.