, but they also focus on pregnant women and outlawing acts in which an embryo is “destroyed in the woman’s womb.”
“Abortion is, according to Texas law, causing the death of the child, who is a child of a woman known to be pregnant,” John Seago, president of Texas Right to Life, said“There's also no such thing as an abortion outside of a woman's womb, so when you look at what's happening in the laboratory with assisted reproductive technology, that is not destruction of an embryo,” he added.
Seago said Texas Right to Life has concerns about the “destruction” of “excessive” embryos, particularly in medical research, but the issue is not one of its priorities for Texas’ 2023 legislative session. Instead, its priorities include enforcing existing laws against abortion and providing more support for pregnant women.
“Ultimately, we believe that all human life is valuable and deserves our legal protection from that beginning moment of fertilization, whether that occurs through normal means or through IVF. And so certainly we want those embryos who are created through the IVF process protected,” she told. “But, I think it’s going to be a process.
Thankful for small mercies (TexasGOP IGNORANCE is a bliss after all) But clearly access to FertilityTreatment affects MOSTLY Whote Affluent couples, while this ill-conceived legislation appears DESIGNED to hit poor and minority women HARD & FIRST.
If IVF treatments go, many researchers fear stem cell research and the resulting medical treatments will also go.
Has anyone discussed how selective reduction in fertility treatment would be handled?
… for now
Ha, ha! Good one.
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'seems' 'unlikely' 'for now' Very reassuring!
So not rich women. Got it
Anti-choice politicians explicitly say they want to ban fertility treatment, IVF, Plan B, cut all public funding for contraceptives, ban sex education, etc.
Probably because they just don't know about it yet. Seems like red states are having a competition to see who can draft the most punitive abortion law package and I don't expect Texas to sit on the sidelines. If they decide only liberal 'elites' with money use it, it'll be banned
All this rag post is a bunch of hyperbole and straw man arguments. In hopes of scaring up voter. Pathetic.
Too many wealthy Republican couples use IVF. Life doesn’t begin at conception for some Republicans who don’t want 8 embryos in their uteruses.
It's coming because the nochoice radicals refuse to answer this question...
“Appears.” Give them time.
if you can go after pregnant women then IVF should be given the same set of rules. If 20 embryos are implanted than 20 must be carried. Otherwise it is abortion and against your law
The whole point of laws shouldn’t be who they target it should be what they say. It can be used for that but likely won’t is a gross straw man argument and basically putting your head in the sand
Who the Hell would be stupid enough to trust the anti-abortion groups? They are religious control freaks who think women are second class citizens.
But nothing about the selective reduction that often accompanies successful IVF?
'For now' is doing a lot of work in that headline
I dunno, QJesus can be mighty unpredictable.
“For now”. It’s like you (the media) never learn that the depravity of the GOP knows no bounds.
It will be. Don't be that publication.
Let's be honest , why would anti-abortion groups target people wealthy enough for IVF? Not their style to single out anyone but the poor.
Right because it's about controlling and punishing women, not any BS about the sanctity of a fertilized egg.
For now....