At this year’s Human Rights Campaign Dinner, Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz spoke of his and Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to bring “decency back” to how the country does things. Their plan to bring decency back aims not only to protect human rights and equal justice under the law by ensuring freedom from discrimination for gay and transgender persons, it also includes actively opposing what they believe to be former President Donald Trump’s version of “freedom.”
Trump’s version of freedom, as Walz understands it, is “that that the government should be free to invade ‘every corner of our lives — our bedrooms, our kids’ schools, even our doctor’s office.’” The Republican Party, he says, seeks to remove “reproductive freedoms” from some of the ways people have been choosing to build their families for quite some time already.
Walz further stated that “the bar is pretty damn low … to treat people like human beings.” But considering that Walz is continually advocating for fertility treatments such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF), we have to ask: Where’s the equal justice for those whose lives are diminished to experimental subjects or are simply disposed of through the IVF process? Isn’t the treatment of “extra” human embryonic lives as expendable an affront to the human rights Walz claims to champion?
For his part, former President Donald Trump has recently stated that his administration is “pro-family” and wants more babies to be born; therefore, he wants IVF provided for “free” to infertile couples, either
