Opinion: Alabama embryo ruling could set a precedent for other conservative states
10 months ago

Opinion: Alabama embryo ruling could set a precedent for other conservative states

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Jr. CNN — The Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday will transform infertility care across the state, potentially setting the stage for a ruling that a fetus or even an embryo outside the womb holds constitutional rights. The court’s ruling could set a precedent for other conservative states that embrace the idea of personhood before birth, making it harder to pursue IVF across large swaths of the country. In theory, there should be a way for Americans like the couples in the Alabama case to protect themselves against medical negligence — or even to express their belief that frozen embryos or life in the womb have value — without setting a precedent for criminalizing abortion across the US. Polls suggest that many Americans believe life in the womb has value while opposing criminal abortion bans: A 2022 Pew Forum poll found that even about a third of Americans who think abortion should be legal believe that “human life begins at conception, so a fetus is a person with rights.” That would not seem so strange if there was a way to recognize the value of embryonic or fetal life that does not inexorably lead to the punishment of physicians who perform abortions, others who aid abortion seekers and even abortion seekers themselves.

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The Newly Revived Zombie Laws Threatening to Lock Up Women When They Miscarry
1 month, 1 week ago

The Newly Revived Zombie Laws Threatening to Lock Up Women When They Miscarry

Slate  

Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of a pair of cases that will determine access to abortion in the state. A trial judge bought Kaul’s argument, and now the case is before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which has a new liberal majority since the 2022 election of Justice Janet Protasiewicz. A woman who babysat for …

Voters in at least 5 states restore reproductive rights
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Voters in at least 5 states restore reproductive rights

Raw Story  

In the first presidential election since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed state governments to determine if, when and why a woman can end a pregnancy, former President Donald Trump, who touted during the campaign he “was able to kill Roe v. Wade” appeared poised to be reelected early Wednesday. “In fact, the amendment goes even further, calling for ‘a fundamental …

More Women Are Being Locked Up for Their Pregnancies Than Ever Before
2 months, 3 weeks ago

More Women Are Being Locked Up for Their Pregnancies Than Ever Before

Slate  

Last week, the organization Pregnancy Justice released a major report showing that criminal prosecutions based on conduct related to pregnancy spiked to record highs in the year after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. A rise in pregnancy criminalization reflects the ascendancy of fetal personhood as the central objective of the anti-abortion …

Anti-Abortion Crusaders Have a New Way to Keep the Question Away From Voters
54 years, 11 months ago

Anti-Abortion Crusaders Have a New Way to Keep the Question Away From Voters

Slate  

With more ballot initiatives ready to go before voters, supporters of reproductive rights are hoping to continue their impressive winning streak. But conservatives looking at what just happened in Arkansas are hoping they’ve found a way to stop the bleeding: by using obscure rules favored by election deniers to keep voters from weighing in on reproductive rights in the first …

Fetus can be referred to as ‘unborn human being’ in Arizona abortion measure voter pamphlet
4 months, 1 week ago

Fetus can be referred to as ‘unborn human being’ in Arizona abortion measure voter pamphlet

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday. The Arizona Supreme Court justices sided with Republican lawmakers, who drafted the language sent to all voters in the …

2 years late how the Dobbs Supreme Court decision changed abortion access
6 months ago

2 years late how the Dobbs Supreme Court decision changed abortion access

NPR  

2 years late how the Dobbs Supreme Court decision changed abortion access Two years after the Supreme Court removed federal abortion protections, the number of abortions is up as telehealth is on the rise and reproductive rights are on the ballot in November. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have an update now on the fight over abortion two years to the …

Couples ask judge to find Alabama law that provides legal immunity to IVF providers unconstitutional
6 months, 1 week ago

Couples ask judge to find Alabama law that provides legal immunity to IVF providers unconstitutional

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Couples whose lawsuits against fertility providers led an Alabama court to rule that frozen embryos could be considered children have asked a judge to toss out a new state law that provides legal immunity to in vitro fertilization providers. The Alabama Supreme Court in February ruled the the couples could pursue lawsuits for the death of their …

Alarmed by embryo destruction, Southern Baptists urge caution on IVF by couples and government
6 months, 1 week ago

Alarmed by embryo destruction, Southern Baptists urge caution on IVF by couples and government

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptist delegates expressed alarm Wednesday over the way in vitro fertilization is routinely being practiced, approving a resolution lamenting that the creation of surplus frozen embryos often results in “destruction of embryonic human life.” They urged members to carefully weigh the ethical implications of the technology while also expressing sympathy with couples “who experience the searing pain …

Voters in 10 states are deciding whether to strengthen access to abortion
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Voters in 10 states are deciding whether to strengthen access to abortion

NPR  

Voters in 10 states are deciding whether to strengthen access to abortion The national map for abortion access could be about to change as voters in 10 states, with a combined population of more than 75 million people, decide whether to put protections for reproductive rights into their state constitutions. — Scott Maucione New York The proposed amendment that could …

Column: Antiabortion agitators are trying to cripple a lifesaving federal healthcare law
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Antiabortion agitators are trying to cripple a lifesaving federal healthcare law

LA Times  

Here’s how the legal departments of two hospitals, legislators in two states and even the Supreme Court turned a pregnancy emergency for Mylissa Farmer into a life-threatening nightmare. It emphasized to doctors and hospitals that when a pregnant woman arrived at an emergency room with a condition that required an emergency abortion, “the physician must provide that treatment.” When a …

The Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion
9 months ago

The Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion

Politico  

Furthermore, originalist arguments for personhood were hardly a slam dunk. The more statutes on everything from wrongful death to inheritance that recognized fetal rights, the more constitutional law could be painted as an outlier — and the more effectively anti-abortion groups could attack Roe and make a longer-term case for fetal personhood. Anti-abortion groups had always defended existing criminal abortion …

How 'fetal personhood' in Alabama's IVF ruling evolved from fringe to mainstream
9 months, 1 week ago

How 'fetal personhood' in Alabama's IVF ruling evolved from fringe to mainstream

NPR  

How 'fetal personhood' in Alabama's IVF ruling evolved from fringe to mainstream Enlarge this image toggle caption Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Alabama Supreme Court's decision that frozen embryos have the same rights as children came as a surprise even to many who oppose abortion rights. At its most extreme, reproductive rights researchers and …

Alabama court ruling upends IVF patients' lives
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama court ruling upends IVF patients' lives

Raw Story  

After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, women who were undergoing fertility treatments in the southern US state had their lives thrown into shock and uncertainty. - Families 'stuck' in legal limbo - Meghan Cole, an Alabama attorney, has a blood disorder that causes her "not to be able to carry children," she told NBC's Today …

Following Alabama, embryo personhood bill in Iowa could put IVF at risk, too
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Following Alabama, embryo personhood bill in Iowa could put IVF at risk, too

Salon  

Following the chaos that unfolded when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally children, many are watching a bill in Iowa closely as its passage could impact in vitro fertilization clinics in the state, too. On Thursday, Iowa House Republicans approved a bill that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person.” Currently the state Iaw has penalties for …

Iowa House OKs bill to criminalize death of an “unborn person” despite IVF concerns
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Iowa House OKs bill to criminalize death of an “unborn person” despite IVF concerns

Associated Press  

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republicans in Iowa’s House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person” — over Democrats’ concerns about how it might apply to in vitro fertilization, after an Alabama court found frozen embryos can be considered children. Iowa’s law currently outlines penalties for termination or serious injury to a “human …

Alabama governor signs legislation protecting IVF clinics from legal liability into law
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama governor signs legislation protecting IVF clinics from legal liability into law

ABC  

In short: The US state of Alabama has legislated protections for IVF providers. The governor of Alabama has signed legislation into law shielding in-vitro fertilisation providers from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Last month a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court left unclear how to legally store, transport and use embryos, …

Alabama governor signs legislation protecting IVF providers from legal liability into law
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama governor signs legislation protecting IVF providers from legal liability into law

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Facing pressure to get in vitro fertilization services restarted in the state, Alabama’s governor swiftly signed legislation into law Wednesday shielding doctors from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. The Alabama Supreme Court last month ruled that three couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed in an accident at a …

Alabama lawmakers advance legislation to protect IVF providers after frozen embryo ruling
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama lawmakers advance legislation to protect IVF providers after frozen embryo ruling

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Committees in the state Senate …

What to know about Alabama’s fast-tracked legislation to protect in vitro fertilization clinics
9 months, 2 weeks ago

What to know about Alabama’s fast-tracked legislation to protect in vitro fertilization clinics

Associated Press  

Alabama lawmakers moved quickly to approve legislation on Wednesday that protects in vitro fertilization clinics from lawsuits in response to an uproar sparked by last month’s state Supreme Court ruling that found frozen embryos have the rights of children under the state’s wrongful death law. In a February ruling to allow wrongful death lawsuits filed by couples whose frozen embryos …

Alabama lawmakers advance legislation to protect IVF providers, with final approval still ahead
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama lawmakers advance legislation to protect IVF providers, with final approval still ahead

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers facing public pressure to restart in vitro fertilization services in the state advanced legislation Tuesday to shield providers from the fallout of a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Committees in the state Senate and House approved identical bills that would protect providers from lawsuits and criminal prosecution for the “damage or death …

Editorial: A right to IVF or abortion will never be protected if fetuses and embryos are declared people
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: A right to IVF or abortion will never be protected if fetuses and embryos are declared people

LA Times  

In the cell laboratory at the Fertility Center Berlin in January, an electron microscope is used to fertilize an egg cell. The Alabama Supreme Court decision last month determining that frozen embryos have the same rights as children brought the personhood debate to a surreal level that should terrify anyone who supports the right to terminate a pregnancy or start …

Opinion: How Alabama's IVF ruling unmasks the hypocrisy of antiabortion zealots
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: How Alabama's IVF ruling unmasks the hypocrisy of antiabortion zealots

LA Times  

We don’t know whether former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, had any leftover embryos after they availed themselves of the advanced reproductive technology known as in vitro fertilization to become the parents of their three children, who are now adults. “It’s been incredible to watch Republicans now scramble to suddenly support IVF while many of these same …

Medical groups urge Alabama Supreme Court to revisit frozen embryo ruling
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Medical groups urge Alabama Supreme Court to revisit frozen embryo ruling

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Groups representing Alabama doctors and hospitals urged the state Supreme Court on Friday to revisit a decision equating frozen embryos to children, saying the ruling is blocking fertility treatments and harming the medical community. The Medical Association of the State of Alabama and the Alabama Hospital Association filed a brief supporting a rehearing request in the case …

Commentary: My wife and I navigated IVF just fine without the Alabama Supreme Court
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Commentary: My wife and I navigated IVF just fine without the Alabama Supreme Court

LA Times  

I never thought of myself as a mass killer, but the Alabama Supreme Court has a different idea. Last month, the court ruled frozen embryos are legally children, allowing several in-vitro fertilization patients to sue a fertility clinic for wrongful death over the inadvertent destruction of their refrigerated, um, kids. People undergoing in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, try to produce as …

'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 …

Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, eliminating federal protections for abortion rights, the decision unleashed a flurry of activity in the states, from legislation to lawsuits that often have ended up before state supreme courts. According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, 30 state supreme …

Alabama lawmakers advance plan to protect IVF clinics
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Alabama lawmakers advance plan to protect IVF clinics

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Facing public pressure to get in vitro fertilization services restarted, Alabama lawmakers moved closer to approving protections for fertility clinics that shut down after a state court ruled that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of children. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled in mid-February that three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a …

She sold her home and changed jobs so she could start IVF. After the Alabama Supreme Court ruling, that hope is now on hold
9 months, 3 weeks ago

She sold her home and changed jobs so she could start IVF. After the Alabama Supreme Court ruling, that hope is now on hold

CNN  

Montgomery, Alabama CNN — Gabbie Price says she’s designed her whole life around in vitro fertilization treatment. But in the wake of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that said embryos are children – and those who destroy them could be held liable for wrongful death – the future of IVF treatment in Alabama is hazy. But Alabama is the first …

Patients urge Alabama lawmakers to restore IVF services in the state
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Patients urge Alabama lawmakers to restore IVF services in the state

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — LeeLee Ray went through eight miscarriages, one ectopic pregnancy and multiple surgeries before turning to surrogacy in her hopes of having a child. But now that plan is in doubt as Alabama fertility clinics paused IVF services in the wake of a state court ruling that embryos are considered children under the state’s wrongful death law. Alabama …

The IVF Ruling Is About Who Gets to Raise Your Children
9 months, 3 weeks ago

The IVF Ruling Is About Who Gets to Raise Your Children

Slate  

In its decision earlier this month interpreting Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act as conferring personhood upon embryos, that state’s high court realized part of the dream of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. * What Alito had called “unborn human beings” would inevitably be swept into Alabama’s protections for “extrauterine children.” That should surprise none of …

A US Court Ruled That Frozen Embryos Are People, What Does It Mean for the Future of IVF?
9 months, 4 weeks ago

A US Court Ruled That Frozen Embryos Are People, What Does It Mean for the Future of IVF?

News 18  

A court in the US has ruled that the frozen embryos used for in vitro fertilisation could be considered children, and destroying them would amount to lawsuits filed by parents for the death of the minors. The lawsuits accused Mobile, Alabama fertility clinic, Center for Reproductive Medicine, and the hospital where it is located, Mobile Infirmary, of failing to properly …

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 …

Nation’s top health official to visit Alabama in wake of IVF ruling
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Nation’s top health official to visit Alabama in wake of IVF ruling

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is sending the nation’s top health official to Alabama on Tuesday for discussions with patients and doctors about the controversial court ruling that upended in vitro fertilization treatment in the state. President Joe Biden and his allies have been quick to seize on last week’s ruling — which says that frozen embryos can be considered …

Alabama’s IVF ruling is already preventing people from having children: ‘Our lives are upended’
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Alabama’s IVF ruling is already preventing people from having children: ‘Our lives are upended’

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The state’s Supreme Court overturned that ruling, declaring …

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 …

Health Talk | Unpacking Alabama SC's decision that counts embryo as unborn child
10 months ago

Health Talk | Unpacking Alabama SC's decision that counts embryo as unborn child

Hindustan Times  

Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court in the United States of America ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling that can have far reaching legal implications for the entire in-vitro fertility treatment ecosystem. The Alabama Supreme Court declared parents may sue over the death of a child, regardless of whether the child is born …

Alabama’s IVF ruling is spotlighting the anti-abortion movement’s long game
10 months ago

Alabama’s IVF ruling is spotlighting the anti-abortion movement’s long game

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S. Brittany Jones, an attorney and policy director for Kansas Family Voice, which opposes …

"Devastasting": Ripple effects being felt as Alabama halts in vitro fertilization
10 months ago

"Devastasting": Ripple effects being felt as Alabama halts in vitro fertilization

Salon  

When Brittany Stuart and her husband weren’t having success trying to conceive, they started to explore their options. Instead, she’s fraught with questions since the Alabama Supreme Court said that frozen embryos are “extrauterine children.” “Are they saying that I murdered a child?” Stuart in phone call with Salon, referring to how the second embryo transfer was unsuccessful. In an …

Letters to the Editor: Law professor: Alabama embryo ruling leaves no doubt that we’re becoming a theocracy
10 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Law professor: Alabama embryo ruling leaves no doubt that we’re becoming a theocracy

LA Times  

Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on April 15, 2023. This week in class, while discussing the Alabama Supreme Court’s frozen embryo decision, this exchange transpired: I displayed the words of Alabama’s chief justice on the screen. A student born in a foreign country raised his hand and said that Alabama was …

Facing backlash over IVF ruling, Alabama lawmakers look for a fix
10 months ago

Facing backlash over IVF ruling, Alabama lawmakers look for a fix

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Lawmakers began scrambling for ways to protect Alabama in vitro fertilization services after multiple providers paused treatment in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos could be considered children under a state law. Justices ruled last week that three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in a mishap at a storage facility could …

Joe Biden rebukes Alabama Supreme Court's IVF ruling as ‘outrageous’ and ‘disregard' for women
10 months ago

Joe Biden rebukes Alabama Supreme Court's IVF ruling as ‘outrageous’ and ‘disregard' for women

Hindustan Times  

The Alabama state supreme court’s ruling that embryos used for IVF are “children” under the law has drawn a strong rebuke from Joe Biden, who said that this and other attacks on reproductive rights by the right-wing are “a direct consequence of the reversal of Roe v Wade”. Biden issued a statement on Thursday afternoon, denouncing the state court’s ruling …

Facing backlash over frozen embryo ruling, Alabama lawmakers look for a fix
10 months ago

Facing backlash over frozen embryo ruling, Alabama lawmakers look for a fix

LA Times  

The Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling this week that embryos can legally be considered children has prompted some in vitro fertilization providers in the state to pause treatments. Justices ruled this week that three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in a mishap at a storage facility could pursue wrongful death claims for their “extrauterine children.” The justices cited sweeping language …

What’s next after the Alabama ruling that counts IVF embryos as children?
10 months ago

What’s next after the Alabama ruling that counts IVF embryos as children?

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that couples who were trying in vitro fertilization and lost frozen embryos in an accident at a south Alabama storage facility can sue under the state’s wrongful death law. The Alabama Supreme Court said three Alabama couples who lost frozen embryos during an accident at a storage facility could sue …

Alabama hospital puts pause on IVF after ruling says frozen embryos are children; how will it impact Americans?
10 months ago

Alabama hospital puts pause on IVF after ruling says frozen embryos are children; how will it impact Americans?

Hindustan Times  

After Alabama's Supreme Court declared frozen embryos as the legal equivalent of children, state's largest hospital, the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system, has temporarily halted IVF services. Alabama SC ruling stems from a case where three couples sued for wrongful death after their frozen embryos were destroyed in a storage facility accident. Alabama Court Ruling on Frozen: The …

Nikki Haley supports Alabama SC's ruling that embryos are children: ‘To me, that’s a life’
10 months ago

Nikki Haley supports Alabama SC's ruling that embryos are children: ‘To me, that’s a life’

Hindustan Times  

Nikki Haley said in an interview on Wednesday, February 21, that he agrees that she agrees with an Alabama Supreme Court ruling saying frozen embryos are considered people in the state. The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos in test tubes should be considered children. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday, February 20, that the …

A second Alabama IVF provider cuts back services after court ruling on frozen embryos
10 months ago

A second Alabama IVF provider cuts back services after court ruling on frozen embryos

LA Times  

A second in vitro fertilization provider in Alabama paused parts of its treatment Thursday, sending patients scrambling to make other plans after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are legally considered children. Alabama Fertility Services said in a statement that it has “made the impossibly difficult decision to hold new IVF treatments due to the legal risk to …

Column: Alabama’s highest court declared frozen embryos people. The U.S. Supreme Court is to blame
10 months ago

Column: Alabama’s highest court declared frozen embryos people. The U.S. Supreme Court is to blame

LA Times  

The Alabama Supreme Court’s breathtakingly arrogant, slapdash and pernicious opinion conferring personhood on newly formed embryos vividly illustrates the consequences of another reckless decision: the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs. Wade. Astonishingly, the sole focus of the court’s analysis was whether Alabama’s wrongful death law encompasses “extrauterine children — that is, unborn children who are located outside of …

Nikki Haley describes embryos as ‘babies’ and backs controversial Alabama ruling
10 months ago

Nikki Haley describes embryos as ‘babies’ and backs controversial Alabama ruling

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nikki Haley has voiced her support for a controversial Alabama …

Alabama’s largest hospital pauses IVF procedures after court rules embryos are ‘children’
10 months ago

Alabama’s largest hospital pauses IVF procedures after court rules embryos are ‘children’

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Alabama’s largest hospital is pausing in vitro fertilization treatment over …

Alabama’s Assault on IVF Is Even Worse Than It Sounds
10 months ago

Alabama’s Assault on IVF Is Even Worse Than It Sounds

Slate  

The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade immediately diminished the quality of health care provided to pregnant patients in states that ban abortion. Friday’s shock decision from the Alabama Supreme Court declaring that embryos are legally “people” will have a similarly devastating impact on the standard of care afforded to women struggling with infertility. The plaintiffs claimed that …

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