{"id":131493,"date":"2024-06-17T12:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=131493"},"modified":"2024-06-17T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:54:31","slug":"why-the-southern-baptists-vote-opposing-ivf-could-change-national-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=131493","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why the Southern Baptists\u2019 vote opposing IVF could change national politics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/06\/12\/ivf-southern-baptist-convention-evangelical-00162994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>: &#8220;The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation\u2019s largest and most politically powerful Protestant denomination, voted Wednesday to oppose in vitro fertilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move may signal the beginning of a broad turn on the right against IVF, an issue that many evangelicals, anti-abortion advocates and other social conservatives see as the \u201cpro-life\u201d movement\u2019s next frontier \u2014 one they hope will eventually lead to restrictions, or outright bans, on IVF at the state and federal levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: &#8220;The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation\u2019s largest and most politically powerful Protestant denomination, voted Wednesday to oppose in vitro fertilization. The move may signal the beginning of a broad turn on the right against IVF, an issue that many evangelicals, anti-abortion advocates and other social conservatives see as the \u201cpro-life\u201d movement\u2019s next frontier \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131494,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131493\/revisions\/131494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}