‘My embryos aren’t safe here’: US patients struggling with infertility scramble after Alabama IVF ruling
Alabama has long been a laboratory for fetal personhood measures. Between 1973 and 2022, when the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, Alabama law enforcement criminalized nearly 700 people for allegedly endangering “unborn life” – a record number of cases. In 2018, Alabama became the first state in the country to enshrine a fetal personhood clause into its state constitution after voters supported a measure to recognize “the rights of the unborn child”, including the right to life.
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Embryo shipping services to halt business in Alabama after IVF ruling
“Our legal team is telling us that, as the ruling is written, that modern fertility treatments cannot continue in the state of Alabama because of the risk to physicians and embryologists, given that embryos are now considered children,” a doctor told the Guardian earlier this week.
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After Alabama IVF ruling, doctors warn that freezing embryos is essential for in vitro fertilization
After Alabama’s state Supreme Court ruling on IVF, doctors are warning that women using in vitro fertilization and their babies could face major health risks — and young cancer patients could lose the chance to build a future family — if fertility clinics stop using frozen embryos.
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‘We knew’: Abortion rights advocates who predicted the Alabama ruling warn about more restrictions
Another area of reproductive care that abortion rights groups say anti-abortion politicians are eyeing is contraception, both regular contraception and emergency contraceptive care.
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An uptick in state personhood bills fuels growing fears over IVF restrictions
“What’s happened in Alabama is extreme, but it is not happening in a vacuum. This is the chaos created by the Dobbs decision,” she added.
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Republicans Suddenly Realize Alabama’s IVF Ruling Is Bad For Them
Tuberville (R) couldn’t get the Alabama decision’s implications straight on Thursday, telling reporters that he’s “all for” the ruling but then saying he opposes its effects on IVF. He then said he needed to read the “legislation” more closely before saying more, though the ruling was a court decision, not a bill or law.
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Anti-abortion extremists in the US are waging a holy war against women – opinion piece by Arwa Mahdawi
Republicans aren’t content with just forcing women to give birth, they are intent on controlling all facets of reproductive healthcare. Bill by bill, ruling after ruling, the anti-abortion movement in America is chipping away at everything from access to fertility treatments to birth control. There may be a lot of uncertainty around the ruling in Alabama but one thing is very clear: anti-abortion extremists in the US are waging a holy war against women.
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The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy – opinion piece by Robert Reich
The underlying issue is whether government can interfere in the most intimate aspects of people’s lives – not only barring people from obtaining IVF services but also forbidding them from entering into gay marriage, utilizing contraception, having out-of-wedlock births, ending their pregnancies, changing their genders, checking out whatever books they want from the library, and worshipping God in whatever way they wish (or not worshipping at all).
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