IVF is on the chopping block next - Thanks "pro-lifers"
In interviews with CNN, doctors who work in the fertility field, and academics who study the legal landscape around it, say there is grave uncertainty -- both about how abortion laws already on the books will be interpreted and about how lawmakers and local prosecutors may seek to push the envelope, freed from the precedents that have effectively shielded the fertility process from government meddling. That lack of clarity, it is feared, will affect the treatments doctors are willing to offer IVF patients and the decisions people will have to make about how to pursue growing their families.
The anxiety was evident in an urgent bulletin from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine sent hours after the leaked draft opinion was published in May, warning that "measures designed to restrict abortion could end up also curtailing access to the family building treatments upon which our infertility patients rely to build their families," society President Dr. Marcelle Cedars wrote.
In Louisiana, legislators are already moving in a bold direction. Lawmakers advanced a bill that would criminalize abortion in the state and grant constitutional rights to "all unborn children from the moment of fertilization." Notably, that bill would remove language in current Louisiana law that refers to the "implantation" of the fertilized egg before it is considered a person.
"A bill like the one that's proposed in Louisiana would prohibit IVF in that state, and that's something we're extremely worried about," Dr. Natalie Crawford of FORA Fertility in Austin, Texas, told CNN. "We don't think people understand the repercussions from some of these proposed bills."
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