Desperate Republicans Are Utterly Floundering Following Alabama's IVF Ban
Channel: The Humanist Report
Date: 2024-02-27

Republicans are scrambling after the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision that effectively banned IVF. Some GOP lawmakers are trying to reassure Americans they’ll protect the procedure by codifying protections for it at the federal level; however, those same Republicans co-sponsored legislation just two years ago that would’ve effectively banned IVF nationwide.

Sources:
Alabama Clinics Halting IVF Treatments (Politico, Feb. 22, 2024): two-clinics-in-alabama-follow-suit-pausing-ivf-treatments-after-the-court-ruled-embryos-are-children-00142742
Data on IVF Live Births (SART, 2020): https://www.sartcorsonline.com/rptCSR_PublicMultYear.aspx?ClinicPKID=0
Alabama Decision was Overtly Religious (USA Today, Feb. 22, 2024): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/22/ivf-opinion-from-alabama-justice-was-overtly-religious/72689378007/
Republicans Scramble to Address IVF Concerns (Politico, Feb. 25, 2024): https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/25/donalds-support-ivf-democrats-hammer-issue-00143203
Michelle Steel’s Hypocrisy on IVF (The NEw Republic, Feb. 23, 2024): https://newrepublic.com/post/179264/republican-congresswoman-michelle-steel-hypocrisy-alabama-ivf-ruling
Mike Johnson’s Confused Take on IVF (The Washington Post, Feb. 25, 2024): https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/25/ivf-republicans-legislation/
NRSC Tells GOP Candidates to Support IVF (Politico, Feb. 23, 2024): https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/23/ivf-alabama-ruling-republicans-senate-00142953
Trump Comes Out in Support of IVF (AP, Feb. 24, 2024): https://apnews.com/article/trump-ivf-abortion-alabama-republicans-8215336740a5963b57bbd970b47bb3a7

Additional Resources:
Life at Conception Act Cosponsors (2021-2022 Version): https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1011/cosponsors
Life at Conception Act Cosponsors (2023-2024 Version): 
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/431/cosponsors?s=1&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22H.R.+431%22%7D


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