There are multiple proposals in the Alabama House and Senate that could restore IVF access in the state, authored by both Democrats and Republicans. But the clearest path is for a Republican-led bill that is set to be introduced by State Sen. Tim Melson in the Senate this week. The bill ...
The ruling has also led to anational conversation about IVFamid worries over the future legal status of the therapy. Patients, infertility doctors and advocates of IVF attend a rally outside the Alabama State House , Feb. 28, 2024 in Montgomery, Ala.Stew Milne/AP Here are five things to k...
Since theoverturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022ended the federal right to abortion, legislative attention has extended to many other aspects of reproductive rights, including access to assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization, or IVF, after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling i...
IVF became a campaign issue after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos could be considered children, leading providers in the state to temporarily halt the treatment. Since then, many Republicans have expressed their support for the popular fertility treatments, including Tru...
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos created during fertility treatments should be considered children.
to do with Roe v. Wade. Yet Democrats took advantage of those issues to pretend Alabama Republicans had somehow passed an anti-IVF law. In fact, Alabama Republicans immediately passed the opposite law to curb the effects of the court ruling and protect the financial viability of IVF companies...
“Frank is a business leader, with a tremendous track record of transforming large corporations,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.“He will be responsible to deliver on the Agency’s commitment to the American People for generations to come!” During the campaign, Trump pledged to elimi...
The fertility treatment became ahot topic during this year’s campaign.In October, Trump bizarrelyreferred to himself as “the father of IVF.”That title is usually reserved for Robert Edwards, the British researcher who wonthe 2010 Nobel prize in physiology or medicinefor developing the technolog...
But the most socially conservative part of their base has serious religious and ethical concerns with IVF as it is currently practiced in the U.S., raising questions about the direction the Republican Party is headed in on the issue. In June, Senate Democrats forced a vote on a b...
On IVF, another reproductive rights issue that has come to the fore in recent months, Trump has pledged to expand access to the expensive fertility treatments. The pledge came in response to backlash following a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that determined that frozen embryos created during...