After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen human embryos should be treated with care, corporate media spent months lambasting in vitro fertilization critics and advocating for killing the embryos at adults’ leisure. Outlets’ tunes, however, changed this week when stories began to circulate about Israel allegedly destroying the “majority of Gaza’s frozen embryos.” ...

More shocking than corporate media’s ongoing amplification of Hamas propaganda in its coverage of the Middle East war is their sudden concern about the sanctity of preborn human life. Until now, corporate media have ferociously defended the destruction of millions of embryos, some of which were likely viable. That’s what’s required to keep IVF operative. Nor have corporate media expressed concern about the fate of the 1 million little lives likely doomed to indefinite frozen storage, which ultimately means their deaths.