First Baby Born Via IVF In U.S. Calls Out Alabama Ruling: 'Embryos Are Not Children'
Source: Huff Post
Feb 27, 2024, 06:56 PM EST
Elizabeth Carr fears that shes an endangered species because of the Alabama Supreme Courts controversial ruling on reproductive rights.
On Monday, WBUR-FM, Bostons NPR news station, published an essay by Carr, who made headlines around the world in 1981 when she became the first baby to be born in the U.S. through in vitro fertilization. In her essay, Carr challenged the state courts ruling that frozen embryos should legally be considered children.
Last weeks ruling was clearly written without a true understanding of the IVF procedure and a total disregard for the science of assisted reproductive technology, Carr wrote. No one understands better than the infertility community that embryos are not children. Success in IVF means bringing home a baby, not solely creating embryos. Carr described embryos as simply one of many complicated steps one has to take in order to even have a chance of having a live birth.
She pointed out that IVF is a complicated multi-step process that not only includes hormone injections, egg retrieval and an embryo transfer but also demands financial resources, timing, science and scheduling. And now the Alabama Supreme Court has made it more challenging for Alabamians to have an IVF baby in 2024 than it was for my parents in 1981. Science should move us forward, not backward, Carr wrote.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/first-us-ivf-baby-calls-out-alabama-ruling-embryos_n_65de4a93e4b0189a6a7faf1d
Judith Carr holds her newborn daughter, Elizabeth, alongside her husband, Roger Carr, in 1981.Bettmann via Getty Images
COL Mustard
(5,928 posts)If she was an Alabama politician or justice, she'd have a better understanding about The Law!
(/s, if there was any doubt.)
raging moderate
(4,310 posts)Every time these people open their mouths, they reveal their profound ignorance. But they act as if they were omniscient.
Hope22
(1,865 posts)collapses under a cloud of evil thoughts and deeds. My heart goes out to everyone who is caught in this nightmare!💗💗
CaptainTruth
(6,602 posts)Mawspam2
(741 posts)...blood transfusions should be illegal. Anyone who facilitates them, doctors, nurses, donors, should be imprisoned and the patients whom they help, left to die.
ificandream
(9,387 posts)Didn't anyone edit that before it was published?
hildegaard28
(391 posts)Advances us. Religion forces us backwards. It always has. Scientists started abandoning Bible based beliefs once science revealed so many secrets of the universe. That's why the religious have always persecuted scientists. That's why the church locked up Galileo, and that's why modern religious fanatics will continue to persecute scientists. They can't handle the fact that they believe in fairytales.