Pro-Trump Host Michael Knowles Tells Trump And GOP To Stop Supporting IVF — Compares To Rape In Brand New Rant

Pro-Trump podcast host Michael Knowles went on a new rant against IVF, comparing it to pregnancies conceived in rape and advising ex-President Donald Trump and other Republicans to stop supporting the medical care.

The Alabama Supreme Court unleashed political hell recently with a decision ruling that embryos frozen for IVF treatments are actual children, and destroying them can be considered wrongful death. Many Republicans, including Trump, have rushed to distance themselves from what has turned out to be a shockingly unpopular decision.

But Knowles, an influential Trump supporter and host of the Daily Wire podcast The Michael Knowles Show, has been railing against IVF for a very long time and in favor of the decision over the course of several shows.

This week, one such rant went viral on social media, a December screed in which Knowles called IVF an “intrinsically evil” action that can’t be justified, applying the same “logic” as to pregnancies conceived by rape.

The host hasn’t softened his view in the face of the court decision. In another episode this week, Knowles slammed Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) for opposing the decision, accusing him of trying to stay on Trump’s good side, and again made the comparison to rape.

He also had some advice for Trump and other Republicans, urging them to change course on IVF and stop expressing support for it:

Now, what Governor Abbott is trying to do here is he’s trying to stay on the good side of President Trump, because President Trump came out on this issue in response to the Alabama Supreme Court faithfully interpreting the Alabama state Constitution.

…I get it. I understand why, as a political matter, President Trump doesn’t want to run in 2024 on shutting down IVF, which many, many people, I think mistakenly but with good intentions, are supportive of. I get that.

I’m not saying he has to make it a plank of his campaign, but if if I were advising President Trump, whom I love, who’s the most pro-life president in my lifetime, if I were advising Governor Abbott here, if I were advising Kari Lake, who also came out in favor of this, I would just say, “Hey, guys. Proceed with caution. Maybe downplay this thing a little bit. Maybe don’t come out in defense of a morally dubious, and in the case of Alabama, illegal and unconstitutional, activity.”.

Because what they’re saying, what Governor Abbott has said here is, look, we love it because IVF is a way to make more human life, and we want more human life. And that’s true.

So is rape. Rape is another way to make more human life. Do you support that? No, you don’t.

Am I saying that rape and IVF and the surrogacy industry are identical? No, of course they’re not identical. But the principle stands. Good ends do not justify immoral means, and there are immoral ways to create human life.

And that doesn’t in any way, call into question the value or the dignity of the human beings who are created in that way. Far from it. Pro-lifers will be the first to tell you we support the right to life of everyone.

Just because someone is created in an unfortunate or sinful or unjust circumstance, doesn’t mean that you have the right to go kill that person for goodness sakes. I’ve interviewed people who are who are the product of rape, who are great gifts to the country, and great and great gifts to their their mothers and great, great gifts to the world. But that doesn’t justify the immoral means.

Watch above via The Michael Knowles Show.