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ShazzieB

(15,960 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 08:36 PM Feb 2023

In Vitro Fertilization Is in Trouble As 3 States Try to Criminalize the Destruction of Embryos

In Vitro Fertilization Is in Trouble As 3 States Try to Criminalize the Destruction of Embryos

https://jezebel.com/in-vitro-fertilization-is-in-trouble-as-3-states-try-to-1850089683

After months of top Republicans getting caught on hot mic whispering about plans to police in vitro fertilization, or straight-up saying it, there’s a growing wave of bills in state legislatures taking more direct aim at the process.

Kansas’ legislature on Tuesday advanced a bill that would establish a new crime of “unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo.” An Arkansas lawmaker introduced a bill that would legally define personhood at fertilization and allow someone to be prosecuted for “wrongful death” of an embryo. West Virginia Republicans have introduced bills that would allow civil lawsuits for loss of an embryo was as a result of “negligence.”

Legislation like this directly implicates IVF: If an embryo is inserted into the uterus and implants to the uterine wall, pregnancy occurs—but the chance of IVF being successful on the first couple attempts stands at just around 50 percent. Embryos that don’t implant are destroyed in the process, and fertility clinics often freeze or dispose of unused embryos. Post-Roe abortion bans that include “life begins at conception” language, like those in Missouri, Texas, and other states, pose a particular threat, as they define “child” as starting at fertilization without specific exceptions for IVF.

Barb Collura, president and CEO of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, tells Jezebel that the new bills in Kansas, Arkansas, and West Virginia seem to “specifically single out people who are using different kinds of medical technology” to build their families—especially with the Kansas bill’s “nonsensical” claim that “unlawful abortion” can be “part of the process of artificial insemination.”


Control, folks. I'm telling you it's all about control. *weary sigh* These effing control freaks want to control every detail of the reproductive lives of anyone they can get control over.
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In Vitro Fertilization Is in Trouble As 3 States Try to Criminalize the Destruction of Embryos (Original Post) ShazzieB Feb 2023 OP
When are they going to come out with a schedule brer cat Feb 2023 #1
All advances in reproductive care are being destroyed. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #2
i don't let anyone try and tell me barbtries Feb 2023 #3
👆👆👆 Rebl2 Feb 2023 #4

brer cat

(24,402 posts)
1. When are they going to come out with a schedule
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 08:54 PM
Feb 2023

of when women of child-bearing age must become pregnant? I will not put it past them.

barbtries

(28,703 posts)
3. i don't let anyone try and tell me
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 09:25 PM
Feb 2023

that republicans do not hate women; they most certainly do and i hate them right back.

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