GOP has 'good reason to be terrified' of Alabama embryo ruling: CNN polling expert
9 months, 3 weeks ago

GOP has 'good reason to be terrified' of Alabama embryo ruling: CNN polling expert

Raw Story  

CNN polling expert Harry Enten said on Thursday that there's a good reason for Republicans to run away from the Alabama State Supreme Court's ruling that frozen embryos are fully developed children. Breaking down a new poll on the subject of reproductive rights, Enten explained that the court's declaration that clinics that dispose of frozen embryos could potentially face wrongful death lawsuits was wildly unpopular with voters. " And when it comes to party breakdown, Enten said that even GOP voters were evenly split about the question, indicating that the issue could be politically poisonous for the GOP were they to embrace a campaign of suing clinics on behalf of frozen embryos. The poll also tested support for former President Donald Trump's reported embrace of a 16-week national abortion ban, and Enten revealed that it fared only a little better than lawsuits in defense of frozen embryos.

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More than 6 in 10 U.S. adults support protecting access to IVF, AP-NORC poll finds
5 months, 1 week ago

More than 6 in 10 U.S. adults support protecting access to IVF, AP-NORC poll finds

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Relatively few Americans fully endorse the idea that a fertilized egg should have the same rights as a pregnant woman. “I just don’t want people to be having more trouble to access IVF; it’s already hard enough.” But the poll found that about 3 in 10 Americans say that the statement “human life begins at conception, so a …

'Bad joke': Alabama Republicans under fire from all sides over new embryo bill
9 months, 3 weeks ago

'Bad joke': Alabama Republicans under fire from all sides over new embryo bill

Raw Story  

Alabama Republicans were sent scrambling after the state's Supreme Court triggered outrage nationwide by effectively banning in vitro fertilization, but critics say the legislative fix they've provided only makes the situation worse. This would make IVF functionally impossible to administer by putting doctors under potential criminal liability for every embryo that is thrown away without being implanted — which is …

First abortion, then IVF… and now birth control?
9 months, 4 weeks ago

First abortion, then IVF… and now birth control?

Salon  

Man, one thing you can depend on Republicans for is that if you give them a shovel, they will just keep on digging. A memo to the National Republican Senatorial Committee from pollster Kellyanne Conway, who was an aide in the Trump White House, revealed that “a staggering 85% of all respondents, including 86% of women, support increasing access to …

Is a frozen embryo a child? The Alabama court ruling that's rocked America's IVF clinics and reproductive sector
10 months ago

Is a frozen embryo a child? The Alabama court ruling that's rocked America's IVF clinics and reproductive sector

ABC  

When a hospital patient wandered into one of Alabama's fertility clinics in 2020, they caused a chain of events that has left the state's IVF sector, and those using it, reeling. Why embryos are now considered 'unborn children' in Alabama The majority opinion of the Alabama Supreme Court argues "unborn children" have long been considered to be covered by the …

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