Wake Up, Look Up

Hello, everyone. Thanks for listening to Wake Up, Look Up, a podcast where we connect events happening in real time to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm Zach Zach Weihrauch. And this summer, we're doing something a little unique as I do a little traveling. I'm having some of my friends guest host episodes that I have produced.

I could not be more excited for you to hear what they have to say, and today's episode is no exception. You're gonna love it. Hi. I'm Jeff Heinrich. Today, we're talking about Embryo Jewelry.

What does this say about us? This question is prompted from an article I read on desiringgod.com entitled the horror of human embryo jewelry by Abigail Dodds. This has become kind of a new trend in our society where companies are taking embryos fashioned from in vitro fertilization or IVF and turning them into jewelry. Now before I go any further, I wanna be very clear. This episode will not be covering the moral ramifications of IVF.

That's another episode for another time by someone much more experienced than me to talk about. This is simply going to delve into embryos being made into jewelry. This trend has gone from companies taking breast milk and placenta in birth, which is in and of itself harmless, little unusual but harmless, and turning their attention to undeveloped embryos being made into jewelry. They're calling this work pioneering. I'm calling it quite disgusting.

This hearkens back to the Aztecs where they would take ears of their victims and hang them from their own ears. This is so barbaric that we as Christians need to push against this, and we know why. Because this absolutely devalues God's greatest gift to us, which is the gift of life. God spoke to Jeremiah in one of the most famous passages, I think, in the Bible, one of the most recognizable anyway in the right to life sphere. Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.

And before you were born, I consecrated you. I consecrated you. That's such strong, beautiful language. It means I declared you sacred. God looked at you, looked at me, looked at everyone in this world and said, your life means something.

Your life is sacred. Are we really living up to those words when we're turning embryos into jewelry? We could look too at Psalm one thirty nine when God said he created us fearfully and wonderfully. Fearfully and wonderfully, it really speaks to the development of a baby inside their mother. The beautiful timeline of a baby becoming a human.

But to turn it into jewelry, are we really respecting the life of that baby? But there's two other things that I think really relate within the New Testament, specifically all four gospels and the book of Corinthians. The first one is when Jesus is walking to the temple with his disciples. He sees that there's something going on. It turns out they've turned the temple into a market and he rebukes them.

He said, you turn my father's house into a house of trade. First Corinthians says, our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit within you. Now think about that. Jesus is saying, you're turning my father's house into a house of trade. You're turning a temple into a house of trade, not what it's designed for.

And we're taking embryos, turning them into jewelry and commodifying them, not what they were designed for either. As Christians, we need to push back against this. We need to be vocal about it. Maybe we're not buying embryonic jewelry. I know I'm not.

But that doesn't mean that it's not happening, and it doesn't mean that we shouldn't be speaking out against it loudly and passionately. We need to be a voice for the voiceless. We need to speak out against such barbaric practices such as embryonic jewelry. Hey. Thanks for watching this episode of Wake Up, Look Up.

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