If you’re a genuine pro-life reactionary–in all likelihood, a devout Catholic–you believe fervently that a fertilized egg is a human being. As a result, you agree with the decision of the Alabama Supreme Court on IVF, even though you may concurrently think that America’s birth rate is far too low. Your answer to that problem, in all likelihood, is to ban birth control.
But, as I’ve said many times, most reactionaries aren’t really pro-life; they think abortion restrictions are necessary to provide a deterrent for immoral sexual behavior. The wages of sin is birth, in other words. If you’re in this camp, putting an end to IVF makes no sense, because it is a deterrent to nothing except wanted pregnancies.
The fact that the GOP is moving so swiftly to support IVF legislation is proof that the second group is in charge, not the pro-lifers.