Right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk explained recently why embryos should be saved from a burning building before babies.
Kirk was asked the question during a Turning Point USA college tour after an Alabama judge ruled that embryos should be considered people.
"Where there's a burning building, right, and you have 10 fertilized embryos and three live babies, and it's burning, and you only have an option to choose one; which one are you saving?" a student asked Kirk.
"That's a tough question," Kirk replied. "So if you can guarantee the embryos will then be used into full fertilization, then to be consistent, you would have to save the 10 embryos."
"If they're fully fertilized, then will be used, yes," he added. "But the three babies have already gone through the entire gestational period, survived potential miscarriages, other side of, you know, birth-related issues."
"But that's a fair and very good question that, you know, to be principled, you have to answer it."
On his Wednesday podcast, Kirk argued families should have to donate embryos that were not used in IVF procedures or store them forever.
"Some say that, you know, they do not like the discarding of embryos," he explained. "And I can agree with that."
"And I think a pragmatic middle-of-the-road approach is, don't discard them, have them donated or have them stored for potential future use," Kirk added. "That if we believe life begins at conception, don't smash them, don't throw them away. You can have them frozen. I think that is an appropriate, pragmatic middle ground."
