\u2018My embryos aren\u2019t safe here\u2019: US patients struggling with infertility scramble after Alabama IVF ruling<\/p>\n
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<\/a> for allegedly endangering \u201cunborn life\u201d \u2013 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 \u201cthe rights of the unborn child\u201d, including the right to life.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Embryo shipping services to halt business in Alabama after IVF ruling<\/p>\n \u201cOur 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,\u201d a doctor told the Guardian earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n After Alabama IVF ruling, doctors warn that freezing embryos is essential for in vitro fertilization<\/p>\n After Alabama\u2019s state Supreme Court ruling on IVF<\/a>, doctors are warning that women using in vitro fertilization and their babies could face major health risks \u2014 and young cancer patients<\/a> could lose the chance to build a future family \u2014 if fertility clinics stop using frozen embryos.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018We knew\u2019: Abortion rights advocates who predicted the Alabama ruling warn about more restrictions<\/p>\n Another area of reproductive care that abortion rights groups say anti-abortion politicians are eyeing is contraception, both regular contraception and emergency contraceptive care.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n An uptick in state personhood bills fuels growing fears over IVF restrictions<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s happened in Alabama is extreme, but it is not happening in a vacuum. This is the chaos created by the Dobbs decision,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Republicans Suddenly Realize Alabama\u2019s IVF Ruling Is Bad For Them<\/p>\n Tuberville (R) couldn\u2019t get the Alabama decision\u2019s implications straight on Thursday, telling reporters that he\u2019s \u201call for\u201d the ruling<\/a> but then saying he opposes its effects on IVF. He then said he needed to read the \u201clegislation\u201d more closely before saying more, though the ruling was a court decision, not a bill or law.<\/p>\n Read more at HuffPost<\/a><\/p>\n Anti-abortion extremists in the US are waging a holy war against women – opinion piece by Arwa Mahdawi<\/p>\n Republicans aren\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy\u00a0 – opinion piece by Robert Reich<\/p>\n The underlying issue is whether government can interfere in the most intimate aspects of people\u2019s lives \u2013 not only barring people from obtaining IVF<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018My embryos aren\u2019t safe here\u2019: US patients struggling with infertility scramble after Alabama IVF ruling Alabama has long been a laboratory for fetal personhood measures. 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