Mike Johnson Won’t Say If Embryos Are People

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wouldn’t tell CBS News whether he believed that discarding embryos — a key part of typical IVF procedures — amounted to murder: “It’s something that we’ve got to grapple with. You know, it’s a brave new world. IVF’s only been invented, I think, in the early ’70s.”

He added: “If you do believe that life begins at conception, it’s a really important question to wrestle with… I believe in the sanctity of life, every life and I think it’s something we have to very carefully consider.”