Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast A Legitimate Slippery Slope
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Jan 28, 2026 A discussion of IVF and how small decisions can lead to harmful cultural consequences. A look at arguments that could push abortion logic toward postnatal killing. Reflections on a public interview strategy and whether a direct answer would have helped. Guidance on when to stay in a church to try to change things and when to walk away.
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Personal IVF Journey
- Greg Koukl describes his and his wife's IVF attempts, embryo implantation, and later embryo adoption attempts that failed before they adopted their daughters.
- He explains they implanted all three embryos rather than creating many, and later adopted frozen embryos seeking to give them life.
IVF Can Trigger A Causal Slippery Slope
- Amy Hall shifted from accepting IVF to opposing it because she sees a cultural commodification of children through reproductive technologies.
- Greg Koukl calls this a legitimate causal slippery slope when an initially permissible act produces morally harmful downstream effects.
How Abortion Logic Extends To Infanticide
- A logical slippery slope links accepting abortion in utero to justifying infanticide ex utero if the underlying logic treats the child as property.
- Applying the same reasoning consistently makes postnatal killing logically defensible, exposing core flaws in that pro-choice logic.
