Embryo Murder | Seven Mountain Mandate Track

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Alabama's targeting of IVF is the Christian right's attempt to control motherhood.

Religious zealots view IVF as a cheat code for women who want to have children on their own terms. It's the ultimate expression of power, after all, to micromanage something as personal as how and when someone has a baby. Authortiarn strict father appeals to these types.

A lot of people are understandably shocked to learn that the anti-abortion nuts also hate IVF. After all, the movement claims to be all about motherhood. One would think the people who are always yammering on about how a woman's greatest purpose is giving birth would celebrate those who endure IVF, which is both painful and expensive, just so they can have a baby. But no, the Christian right wants to end IVF for two reasons: First, because of the bottomless misogyny and homophobia that fuels the movement. Second, because the end goal for the Christian right is to turn the U.S. into a theocracy, and banning IVF helps them get there.

It's important to understand that what the Christian right really wants is not motherhood, per se, but a social order where women are second class citizens. They take a dim view of not just abortion and contraception, but all reproductive technologies that make it easier for women to exercise autonomy over their lives. There's a widespread perception that IVF is primarily used by lesbians, single women, and women who waited until their 30s to get married. (In reality, there are many reasons, including male infertility.) Conservatives view IVF as a cheat code for feminists who want to have children on their own terms. They would prefer a system where the only path to motherhood is being trapped with a Trump-voting husband who controls your checking account so you can't leave.

It's hard to convey to non-nutty people how obsessively angry conservatives are with women who wait until they're independent adults before they marry.

The Seven Mountain Mandate, also 7M, or Seven Mountains Dominionism, is a dominionist conservative Christian movement within Pentecostal and evangelical Christianity. It holds that there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to influence: family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.