Can anyone say for certain what happens to frozen embryos in states banning abortions?

[Samrob]

[mucifer]

1. every sperm is sacred. Embryos probably are too:

[Walleye]

2. I think republicans have been asked about this, and they just talk about gas prices

I have been curious about this since the beginning of their stupid “movement”. They are probably hastily writing laws to correct the laws they’ve already hastily written

[Captain Zero]

5. We are going to need to implant and harvest them somewhere

Susan Collins should really be concerned about this.

[Hekate]

3. It will be interesting to find out, won't it? People in need of IVF treatment ...

… may need to go out of state.

The prospects are pretty awful when a fertilized egg is legally a year old baby.

[Nevilledog]

11. ...

[Kablooie]

4. Jonathan Swift has a suggestion

And I’ll just leave it at that.

[ret5hd]

6. Another question along the same lines:

My understanding is that with IVF —sometimes— the woman ends up with 3 or 4 or more implanted eggs and that it is common in that circumstance to “abort” the excess eggs so that the remaining egg has a better chance of survival.

What then?

[Effete Snob]

9. It depends on the statute

There is no general answer to this question.

But absent an IVF exception, the procedure becomes illegal.

[Freddie]

10. Happened to a friend years ago

She got pregnant with triplets via IVF. She was told she could have healthy twins, or sickly/dead triplets and die herself in the process. She had a reduction, and healthy twins, now 18. Nowadays, realizing that even twin pregnancies are far more problematic than singles, IVF procedures generally do not use multiple embryos anymore.
Of course the “pro-life” crowd would have preferred my friend to have dead triplets.

[Archae]

7. George W Bush tried to make an issue out of this...

He paraded what were called "snowflake babies" (children from frozen embryos) at a news conference but that "movement" went nowhere.

[Effete Snob]

8. There is no answer to your question

First off, the state laws are all different.

However, in the most general case, the thing that is the offense is performing an abortion on a patient. So, merely keeping, or discarding IVF cells is not an abortion.

It would be preferable to identify a particular state, though.

[rampartc]

12. here is some talk about the case (in Louisiana, of course) of sofia vergara's frozen enbryos

suing her for the "right to live."

https://www.lawfuel.com/blog/the-sofia-vergara-frozen-embryo-case/