How states giving rights to fetuses could set up a national case on abortion
Ziegler said each new law passed creates a cumulative effect. The more times a state recognizes a fetus as a person in one area of law, the easier it will be for lawyers to make the argument that it’s inconsistent that fetuses aren’t recognized as people by the Constitution. If states like Alabama and Florida recognize fetuses as people in their laws and constitutions, she said, it helps set the dominos for an argument on the national level.
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Alabama has restored IVF access. But legal battles are likely just beginning.
While treatment is set to resume, doctors say the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision may have opened a sort of Pandora’s box on the future legal landscape for IVF in the state.
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Law protecting Alabama IVF may do more harm than good, critics say
The bill was intended as a stopgap measure to reassure fertility clinics that had halted operations, but legal experts are concerned about its unintended consequences.
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US health secretary on Alabama’s IVF ruling: ‘Pandora’s box was opened’ after fall of Roe
The health and human services secretary, Xavier Becerra, said the US must provide federal protections for reproductive rights if Americans hope to avoid further restrictions on in vitro fertilization, contraception and abortion in an exclusive interview with the Guardian.
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