Christian conservatives explain outrage over Dave Rubin’s surrogacy announcement

Apr 9, 2022 by Jill

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post:

Controversy arose after political pundit Dave Rubin announced in March that he and his husband, David Janet, had fathered children through In Vitro Fertilization and surrogacy, methods of conceiving children that conflict with some Christians’ beliefs about family and human dignity.

However, the dispute over how Rubin and Janet conceived their children was only heightened after several prominent conservative organizations, such as PragerU and BlazeTV, publicly congratulated the political figure for fathering children through IVF and surrogacy.

While Rubin once had more left-wing views, he’s become more of a voice followed by conservatives and libertarians in recent years. Christian author and radio host Michael Brown noted in an interview with The Christian Post that conservative outlets defending a gay atheist’s actions prompted some outrage. Christian conservatives, Brown said, “stand for male-female parenting as God’s ideal and God’s plan.”

“So we always grieve when children are brought into the world and intentionally deprived of either a mother or a father, in this case of a mother,” Brown said. “That, to us, is not a kindness towards the children. It’s a wronging of the children.”

IVF involves transferring an embryo into a woman’s uterus after sperm and egg are manually combined in a laboratory dish. Some have warned that the process can result in the deaths of unborn children in various ways, such as when excess embryos are discarded or fail to survive being frozen and thawed.

Surrogacy also raises ethical concerns about the treatment of children, critics say. This arrangement involves a woman agreeing to give birth to a baby on behalf of another person or couple, deliberating depriving that child of a biological mother.

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