Dr. Kaylen Silverberg is the medical director of Texas Fertility Center in Austin. Like other doctors in Texas, he's having to figure out what impact the state's abortion laws will have on fertility treatments.
Raquel Erlandson and her husband Michael are among Silverberg’s patients left wondering what choices they will have with their frozen embryos. They have been trying to get pregnant for quite some time and were excited after eggs and sperm retrieval resulted in viable embryos to freeze and later use. But Erlandson says there’s no way she could use all the embryos and have four babies. She’s worried that Texas’ upcoming abortion law will prevent her from discarding some.
Crockin suggests if doctors want to be extra cautious, they should consider freezing sperm and eggs separately or storing embryos in a state without restrictive abortion laws.“It's easy for us because our embryos are stored in Las Vegas, so if a couple wants to discard embryos, they pick up the phone and they call Las Vegas and the embryos are discarded,” he said. “We believe that those embryos are not subject to Texas law.”But many fertility clinics in Texas store their embryos in Texas.
“Well, in the state of Texas, based on these laws that are in effect and getting ready to be in effect, they're out of luck,” Silverberg said. “They've got to pick up and physically leave the state to terminate that pregnancy.”
What does the Bible say about when life begins? Go with that.
SeemaGVP The law clearly doesn't impact IVF. Yall can't be this ignorant to write such disinformation just to push a false narrative. Bad journalism funded by taxpayers. Do better.
SeemaGVP En español: La ley antiaborto de Texas preocupa a médicos especialistas en fertilidad y a pacientes.