Is producing 6,000 babies in test tubes an “achievement” for a government? Yes, apparently, according to Polish parliamentarian Weronika Smarduch. October 15 marks the second anniversary of the election of Donald Tusk’s current left-leaning government which she supports. Its apologists have taken to social media to tout its “achievements.” MP Smarduch decided to name three. Her number two was “in vitro” (see here).

Tusk reinstated taxpayer funding for in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures rescinded by the former Law and Justice government. IVF will be funded through June 2028 at $685.8 million dollars. Smarduch tried to package large-scale baby manufacture as a family-friendly thing. To stress the government’s “success,” she even crowed that “6,000” babies have been produced through IVF. “It’s like one little commune (gmina)!” she exults. She conveniently doesn’t mention that overall Polish fertility is falling and that the government she extols is larded with pro-abortionists who are checked by their limited parliamentary majority and a Law and Justice President who would veto their agenda. She likewise doesn’t mention past abuses of “Civic Platform” (Tusk’s party) funded IVF (see here). The injustice of producing babies as commodities is lost on her. The baby village is just another “success” of Tusk’s leadership.

In one of his poems, Karol Wojtyła (the 47^th anniversary of whose papal election we mark tomorrow) reflected on language, specifically, how language can limit communication. In that case he had in mind how he wanted to share his thoughts with I think an African bishop, but one’s thoughts are best expressed in one’s native tongue — and, with the limited number of its speakers worldwide, Polish (like other limited national languages) might sometimes be more a prison than bridge.

That certainly helps the Tusk government. The extent and intensity of its active online vitriol almost every day against its opponents is not broadly known outside Poland, but it would have made Biden-Harris spin doctors green with envy. Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre would have seemed rank amateurs in its shadow.

Sorry, but I’m not going to celebrate “one little commune” of IVF babies because, the way IVF is generally practiced globally, it means there’s a larger small town somewhere of frozen embryos consigned to a ridiculous fate, medical experimentation, or simple destruction. And I’m ashamed that there are many fellow Polish Catholics gloating about this “achievement.”

Hillary Clinton pushed the idea “it takes a village to raise a child.” Apparently now it takes high-tech manufacturing of children to raise a village.

Smarduch represents the Highlanders of southern Poland, John Paul’s beloved górale. Methinks, as one of them by ancestry, they make babies the old-fashioned way.