The doctors who push these therapies, which include surgery, argue that women and other doctors overuse IVF. “IVF is a really expensive last resort and there’s so much before that,” Lankford explained—a bizarre and condescending point that assumes that someone who has turned to the expensive and difficult process of IVF didn’t first test her hormone levels or check for fibroids.

Whereas Lankford’s bill encourages women with infertility to check for fibroids, the Southern Baptist Convention suggests they check in with a higher power. “Couples who experience the searing pain of infertility can turn to God, look to Scripture for numerous examples of infertility, and know that their lament is heard by the Lord, who offers compassion and grace to those deeply afflicted by such realities,” the denomination’s anti-IVF resolution reads.

My intuition is that it’s an anti-feminist move. It’d be like an anti-contraceptive position where getting to plan your parenthood gives women more sovereignty over their career, choice of partner, and choice of role in a family. If you can freeze an embryo for IVF later in life, then you’re cheating because they want you to marry young and not have a career. The venn diagram of people praying for artificial wombs so that women are no longer needed and those grateful for anti-IVF bills is an enveloped circle with a few outlying freaks who really really care for those embryos that don’t get used during IVF. Because the only argument found in this article is ridiculous-on-its-face post hoc.