Illinois Bill Would Allow Residents To Manufacture Unlimited Embryos And Destroy Them All

Assisted reproductive technology is marred with ethical and moral controversy, but under a new bill that could be passed by the Illinois House of Representatives as soon as next month, procedures such as the serial manufacturing and destruction of embryos could become “fundamental rights” for residents of the state.

Margaret Croke, the freshman state representative for Illinois’s 12th district, first introduced HB 5779 in August with the intent of debating it in the legislative veto session scheduled for November. Croke wrote in her September newsletter about using the bill to enshrine abortion and assisted reproductive technology (ART), such as serial embryo creation and destruction, as “fundamental rights” for all Illinoisans.

In that same Sept. 6 release, Croke announced the birth of her daughter and even shared a picture of the newborn swaddled in a matching blanket and bow.

“The big news from the month of August is that the 12th district gained a new constituent! My husband Patrick and I welcomed our daughter, Mary Pearl, to the family. We are overjoyed, and PJ is handling his promotion to big brother well,” Croke wrote.

In the next paragraph, Croke detailed her plans to pass the bill that would strictly prohibit Illinois from interfering on behalf of unborn babies in the womb or life created in a petri dish.

The Democrat’s legislation, specifically, seeks to amend the state’s “Reproductive Health Act,” a law granting residents on-demand abortions, to add ART to the list of “fundamental rights” all adults in the state can demand.

That technology, according to the bill text, includes in vitro fertilization, gamete intrafallopian transfer, zygote intrafallopian transfer, embryo biopsy, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (which often yields incorrect results and leads to premature disposal of viable embryos), embryo freezing (which reduces the chance of an embryo surviving), problematic procedures such as supplying egg and sperm (which preys on young adults strapped for cash), and supplying embryos.

It also includes gestational surrogacy, which involves renting the wombs of women who form an undeniable physical bond with the baby they are carrying, only to sever that connection as soon as the child is born. Surrogates also take serious health risks in undergoing pregnancy for money rather than for the love of their child and the father of the child they are carrying, as expressed in a lifelong commitment to be the child’s mother and secure the child his own father through marriage.

The bill not only guarantees anyone seeking to create a child outside of natural, biological means can do so but also strictly prohibits the government from interfering in any part of the process — except, possibly, for paying all the bills. That means the legislation would bar the state from regulating embryo creation, storage, destruction, supply, how many eggs and sperm an individual can “donate” in exchange for money, whether biological matter used for procreation can be submitted for genetic testing, and the handpicked breeding methods used to support the designer baby purchasing trend.

Under Croke’s proposed legislation, “a

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