{"id":1029805,"date":"2024-02-27T19:10:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1029805"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:52:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T20:52:16","slug":"icymi-politico-republicans-have-an-answer-on-ivf-its-only-raising-more-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-politico-republicans-have-an-answer-on-ivf-its-only-raising-more-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Politico: Republicans Have an Answer on IVF. It&#8217;s Only Raising More Questions."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cAt the same time that they are professing support for IVF, dozens of congressional Republicans have <strong>signed onto so-called personhood legislation with no carve-out for embryos in clinics<\/strong>, which, if enacted, would upend how the procedure is practiced in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/27\/republicans-alabama-ivf-ruling-00143391\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Republicans have an answer on IVF. It&#8217;s only raising more questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Republicans are lining up to pledge their support for in-vitro fertilization \u2014 but that won\u2019t end the conversation Alabama\u2019s Supreme Court started last week when it ruled that embryos are people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The court\u2019s decision left the GOP scrambling to answer the philosophical \u2014 as well as the logistical, medical and legal implications \u2014 that the ruling raised about how to handle unimplanted, viable embryos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>At the same time that they are professing support for IVF, dozens of congressional Republicans have signed onto so-called personhood legislation with no carve-out for embryos in clinics, which, if enacted, would upend how the procedure is practiced in the United States.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Here are follow-up questions for politicians professing support for IVF:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Do you agree with the Alabama ruling, which has led hospitals across the state to cease all IVF services?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Alabama Supreme Court ruling was an unexpected bombshell \u2014 a civil suit about the accidental destruction of embryos under the state\u2019s \u201cwrongful death\u201d law that the all-Republican court used to declare that embryos have full legal personhood whether they\u2019re frozen in a clinic or implanted in a uterus. <strong>Since then, at least three major clinics in the state have suspended all IVF services, leaving families pursuing costly treatments in limbo.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Many other members of Congress have voiced support for IVF <strong>despite co-sponsoring fetal personhood bills similar to the language in the Alabama state constitution on which the court relied in its IVF ruling.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Are embryos people even if they are not implanted in the uterus?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Conservative states that have adopted so-called fetal personhood laws illustrate these diverging views. A Missouri law passed nearly four decades ago grants rights to \u201cunborn children,\u201d which it defines as \u201cthe offspring of human beings from the moment of conception.\u201d Georgia\u2019s version defines \u201cunborn children\u201d more narrowly as \u201cHomo sapiens at any stage of development\u201d who are \u201ccarried in the womb.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>These varying fetal personhood laws raise questions about child support, taxes and the legality of certain forms of contraception that work by preventing implantation, not fertilization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What should be done with the million or more embryos that are cryopreserved? No one knows <strong>how many embryos are in cold storage,<\/strong> but several estimates put <strong>the figure above 1 million.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A ruling barring clinics from discarding the fertilized embryos that are not implanted raises questions about their fate including who would be responsible for paying for storage, or whether they could be frozen in perpetuity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cAt the same time that they are professing support for IVF, dozens of congressional Republicans have signed onto so-called personhood legislation with no carve-out for embryos in clinics, which, if enacted, would upend how the procedure is practiced in the United States.\u201d Politico: Republicans have an answer on IVF. 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