Second Alabama provider stops IVF care after court deems embryos ‘children’ A second Alabama provider announced that it will pause its in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments on Thursday, just days after the state supreme court ruled in a first-of-its-kind decision that embryos are “extrauterine children”. Read more at The Guardian Three Alabama clinics pause IVF services … Read more
Parker’s statements — in his remarks to Enlow and in his written opinion — are the latest examples of Republican politicians and elected officials embracing the Christian nationalist view that America’s laws should be rooted in a fundamentalist reading of the Bible. Read more at NBC News
How Alabama’s ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ could impact IVF Ziegler: I think there’s been a broader strategy — the sort of next Roe v. Wade, if you will — for the anti-abortion movement. It is a recognition that a fetus or embryo is a person for all purposes, particularly for the purposes of … Read more
The Alabama court’s recent ruling raised concerns among doctors and patients that classifying embryos as children could restrict in-vitro fertilization. Read more at NBC News
Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos outside the womb are children The lawsuit involved embryos stored at a fertility clinic in Mobile. According to the opinion, in 2020 a patient “managed to wander” into the fertility clinic and remove several frozen embryos from the nursery, according to the lawsuit. The patient dropped the frozen … Read more
Florida Democrats told HuffPost they’re worried the law will be weaponized against abortion providers, OB-GYNs who handle miscarriages and physicians who offer reproductive care such as in vitro fertilization. Read more at Huffpost
In the chat, Lynn asked for advice on answering questions about in vitro fertilization and the morning-after pill. IVF, a fertility treatment, generally involves creating multiple embryos, and some may ultimately be discarded. The morning-after pill is emergency contraception that prevents pregnancy if taken soon after unprotected sex. Some wings of the anti-abortion movement would … Read more
Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc called the disposal of embryos for in vitro fertilization “a disgusting practice” and didn’t rule out supporting a national ban on the procedure, during a campaign event earlier this week, according to an audio recording obtained by Vanity Fair. “I don’t like that practice [of discarding embryos] at all,” Bolduc, … Read more
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. … Read more
Sara Chambers, a 25-year-old from Tennessee who is currently going through IVF, had this very question. Tennessee is one of the most restrictive states when it comes to reproductive rights: the disingenuously named Human Life Protection Act essentially outlaws abortion and declares that life begins at fertilization not implantation. Wondering what the law meant for … Read more
