Can Forced Birth Condemn Abortion and Approve Invitro Fertilization

As I understand it, the Catholic Church does not approve of invitro fertilization. A professor at a conservative college in Michigan recently explained why a baby conceived in a petri dish can be considered "not a human being." It's one of many places where Forced Birth, with its simple imaginative narrative about things alleged to happen "in the womb," gets all tangled up with reality.

The Bible has been altered many times. There are no original copies of the books in the Bible. Thus, the Bible can be altered at will. Perhaps it could be modernized to refer to both the womb and the petri dish. Then the fellow who wrote the link wondering if conception in a petri dish results in a "human being" or something else.

There are thousands of people who make a living splitting theological hairs. None of these hairs, like whether the circumstances of the union of a cell of the female and the cell of the male result in a genuine human being or not, are important. People who argue such things get money from both donors and taxpayers so they have outsmarted the system. 

The dilemma centered on whether invitro babies have the same status as womb babies is a cash cow for those who argue about such things. Lucrative topics to argument about in religion are ones which a.) have no good resolution so they can continue for many years and b.) have passionate supporters on either side that will pay the salaries of those who carry on the argument.

This argument about which kinds of conception results in real people and which do not has promise for a lucrative topic. Best wishes to those who make money arguing such things.