Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: 'Embryos, to me, are babies'

[In It to Win It]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nikki-haley-sides-alabama-supreme-court-ivf-ruling-embryos-are-babies-rcna139819

NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday that frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization are “babies,” siding with a recent Alabama Supreme Court decision that raised concerns among doctors and patients about the future of the procedure.

“Embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley told NBC News in an interview, adding that she used artificial insemination to have her son, a different process than IVF that doesn't present the same complexities around creating embryos in a lab. "When you talk about an embryo, you are talking about, to me, that’s a life. And so I do see where that’s coming from when they talk about that.”

Classifying embryos as children under state law raises significant questions about whether the practice, used by families having trouble conceiving, could continue in states like Alabama. Unused embryos are often destroyed, which could open families or clinics up to wrongful death lawsuits under this policy. Storing frozen embryos, meanwhile, is expensive.

Later on Wednesday, the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced that it was pausing IVF treatments in response to the state Supreme Court ruling.

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[Nevilledog]

1. She's an extremist.

[BootinUp]

11. Or she plays one for political gain

[Docreed2003]

19. This..👆. Haley has proven she's nothing more than an opportunist

She's desperately trying to remain relevant

[Cha]

31. Or both

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Who is surprised by this?

Haley is a RWNJ who is probably more dangerous than TFG because she is a true believer in this crap while TFG is mainly transactional and only believes in crap that helps him

[In It to Win It]

10. Agreed. I said the same of Ron DeSantis.

Trump is crazy but his craziness doesn't make these other people (Haley and DeSantis) "moderates." They are worse because they are true right wing ideologues in a way that Trump isn't.

[malaise]

3. This from a woman who denies the existence

of racism in America - she ticks off all the MAGAt boxes

[Blues Heron]

4. I always keep a thermos or two in the front seat for the HOV lanes.

[MontanaMama]

5. Well we can vote against her crazy ass the same way we can vote

against TSF. She's wrong on this and I believe the women of America will tell her just how wrong she is.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. What A Buffoon

Take them out of the freezer. Let's see how viable they are.

[tanyev]

7. "Babies" that have to be kept locked up in freezers.

Honestly.

[Marthe48]

29. Or cages

or both

[Bayard]

8. So, what does she call embryos that are re-absorbed by a woman's body?

Happens a lot.

[lindysalsagal]

21. Idiots.

[Ferrets are Cool]

23. God's will.

[Cha]

33. Really. NH speaks for god? What does

her god say about pardoning Rapists?

[dlk]

9. When it comes to science, wishing or believing doesn't make it so

Haley has demonstrated the emotional maturity of a child and is thoroughly unfit to be president.

[SarahD]

12. Bright side to the ruling.

It could slow down or stop all these bizarre fertility programs that burden the system and make health care more expensive. Not to mention, some of that stuff is very risky.

[ecstatic]

26. links? I'm genuinely curious. nt

[Emile]

13. She is not fit to be president.

[onecaliberal]

14. She is stupid and extreme.

[MOMFUDSKI]

15. She crawled out from under the rock she

resides under to make this bullshit statement? Wow

[Freethinker65]

16. Lab created frozen clumps of cells are now babies.

Will Nikki agree to retroactive repayment of all of the back taxes to women that suffered miscarriages but were unable to declare dependents?

Or are clumps of cells created by actually fucking not considered babies?

[CrispyQ]

17. Can you claim them on your taxes?

Just one of thousands of situations they never thought of before passing this heinous legislation.

[Eugene]

32. This has been proposed before.

Do not underestimate how crazy these people can get.

[dalton99a]

18. Haley is Trump with better manners.

She would give Ukraine to Putin without blinking an eye

[MorbidButterflyTat]

20. "Embryos, to me, are babies,"

That's the point, right there. TO HER. So make your own personal decisions for yourself, and leave others to make their OWN CHOICES. No legislation needed.

Stop criminalizing women's healthcare!

[Ferrets are Cool]

22. So Haley, what about the unused ones? The ones that aren't needed?

WHAT THE FUCK YOU GONNA DO ABOUT THEM IDIOT????? GOD, the people are so fucking stupid.

[aocommunalpunch]

24. When are their birthdays?

Just fuck all these fucking idiots.

[ecstatic]

25. She's unelectable, but I hope she stays in the race as long as possible.

Keep talking, nikki.

[Irish_Dem]

27. She is silly, immature, simplistic, and self centered.

Being POTUS is not just about your personal feelings about issues.
It is way more complicated than that.

[lanlady]

28. I just looked up artificial insemination vs IVF

Artificial insemination is only 1/3 as effective as IVF and completely useless for some women, such as those with blocked fallopian tubes.

I have a beautiful little grandson who is here on this earth only because his parents scraped up the money to undergo IVF. Nothing else worked for them.

So on behalf of my happy little family, FU Nicki.

[Bristlecone]

30. She is gross.

[2naSalit]

34. Nikki, Nikki, Nikki...

When this is all over, there's a special place in hell waiting for you.

[Hassler]

35. Right, Nikki because babies thrive in subzero temps

[sinkingfeeling]

36. Can she see those 'children' without a microscope?

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. So Nikki, if you had needed IVF to get pregnant

are you saying you would not have done it? Would you have made that choice for your family?

[ismnotwasm]

38. She's a fucking liar

She stands for nothing

[republianmushroom]

39. self removal