Democrats will not be simply sitting by as Republicans attempt to gaslight Individuals in regards to the inevitable penalties of their anti-abortion legal guidelines.
Senator Tammy Duckworth tied Republican assaults on IVF to their anti-abortion rhetoric that led to the overturning of Roe.
On ABC’s This Week, @SenDuckworth reminded viewers that assaults on IVF are doable due to the elected Republican conflict on Roe v. Wade and reproductive freedom pic.twitter.com/GCWFfaM4z7
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— Robyn Patterson (@RMPatterson46) February 25, 2024
“I’ve been talking about this since 2018 when it was very clear that Republicans were working to eliminate women’s reproductive rights,” Duckworth stated on ABC’s This Week. “I said, if Neil Gorsuch gets put on the Supreme Court, if Amy Coney Barrett gets put on the Supreme Court, we’re gonna have an erosion of Roe v. Wade. And even back in 2018, I said IVF is next. They’ve said they’re coming for IVF. So unfortunately, I wasn’t surprised.”
Jen Klein, Director of the White Home Gender Coverage Council, wasn’t having it both. “Women in this country are being denied access to emergency rooms when they’re in the middle of having an emergency, whether they need an abortion or they’re having a miscarriage,” Klein stated on MSNBC’s The Weekend.
“What just happened in Alabama is fertility clinics are now closed. They are unsure what to do. And these are people who desperately want a family, who desperately want a child – and now are unsure if that is legal to do in their state,” Klein added.
On @TheWeekendMSNBC:
The White Home’s Jen Klein made clear that regardless of Republican claims about supporting IVF, ladies throughout red-states are being denied entry to care, fertility clinics are closing, and Individuals who need households are scared it isn’t authorized of their states. pic.twitter.com/GEacB6OQQs
— Robyn Patterson (@RMPatterson46) February 25, 2024
How we obtained right here:
Issues for Republicans began when a survey “discovered that 86% of all respondents supported entry to IVF, with 78% assist amongst self-identified ‘pro-life advocates’ and 83% amongst Evangelical Christians.
After the sturdy response in opposition to the Alabama ruling in opposition to IVF based mostly on the Republican argument used to overturn Roe v Wade by a conservative Supreme Courtroom, Republicans had been instructed to get on the market and deny deny deny. They had been instructed to specific assist for IVF.
The Senate Republican campaign arm memo urging members to come out in support of IVF came simply “three days after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos used in IVF are children and have legal protections under the state’s ‘personhood’ laws.”
And Republicans are doing simply that, ignoring their very own data to take action.
Right here’s how that’s going: Rep. Byron Donalds says IVF is essential as a result of it helps {couples} “breed.”
Rep. Byron Donalds on Meet the Press says IVF is essential to {couples} as a result of it helps them “breed great families.” pic.twitter.com/WeO20BGvMk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2024
Republicans are attempting to run away from their very own insurance policies
What’s behind all of that is the conservative notion of “personhood” attributed, however solely when handy, to embryos. There are a lot of apparent ramifications from this unfounded perception, which Republicans have been properly conscious of for no less than 20 years, so denial at this level beggars perception.
The underside line is that if “life begins at conception” as they argue, then embryos are human beings. The Alabama ruling allowed mother and father to sue for wrongful dying of their frozen embryos.
This precipitated a number of fertilization clinics to stop their work, out of concern that they “could be held liable for embryos that are destroyed or lost.” The Alabama AG then tried to reassure everybody that he received’t prosecute IVF clinics and households.
Nevertheless, the Alabama Supreme Courtroom referred to IVF cryotanks where embryos are stored as “cryogenic nurser(ies).” That would definitely give pause to anybody involved about authorized legal responsibility.
Logically, there isn’t a means out of this one: It’s both someway. Republicans can equivocate about in utero versus in an IVF lab, however that argument undercuts their whole premise. Both life beings at conception or it doesn’t.
Oh, and by the way in which, all of us noticed this coming. It’s the inevitable subsequent step of their premise, which has no medical or scientific basis. If solely Republicans hadn’t overturned Roe, their illogical assaults on freedom may have flown largely underneath the radar.
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