Already, reports have surfaced of IVF patients frantically calling their doctors, wondering if they need to move their frozen embryos across state borders in anticipation of possible restrictions on the procedure. At least three practices within IVF treatment could be impacted by antiabortion legislation at the moment, as Judith Daar, dean of the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, explained to me. Among them are the discardment of embryos (i.e., fertilized eggs) that are not implanted in a patient; preimplantation genetic testing to determine the genetic health makeup of the embryo; and fetal reduction in cases of multiple pregnancies, which can result in higher mortality rates.
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