Showing posts with label embryos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label embryos. Show all posts
Friday, June 26, 2026
The Trump administration is calling frozen embryos children
A document on an embryo adoption program may be marginal – but it marks an escalation in the pursuit of fetal personhood…
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Wildfire Smoke Is Affecting People’s Sperm and Embryos, Studies Show – Mother Jones
“I would advise [families trying to conceive] to avoid wildfire smoke exposure, given what we know so far.”…
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Cruz seeks to blunt Democratic attacks with IVF bill | The Hill
But Cruz did not answer a question about whether he thinks an IVF-created embryo is a human life…https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4678173-cruz-ivf-bill-democratic-attacks/
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Saturday, March 2, 2024
‘We did it in cattle’: Alabama Republicans’ bungled response to IVF patients
The rally concluded with some direct conversations between advocates and lawmakers. In one such interaction, the Republican state representative Ben Harrison told families that a "solution" would be to freeze the sperm and egg separately, instead of freezing embryos, likening the former procedure to a process used on cows.
"My personal opinion is that we keep them apart and only bring them together for what you need and what you're willing to implant," Harrison said. "We did it in cattle all the time."…
Conservative Christian women in red states are rising up to defend IVF - The Washington Post
"Show others love, grace and sympathy rather than judgment," Sara wrote back online. "I would encourage you to not only educate yourself further but to truly put yourself in a fertility patients shoes. This is not a road taken by choice and comes with great emotional struggle and stress."…
Friday, March 1, 2024
Opinion | The I.V.F. Ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court Should Not Be a Surprise - The New York Times
It has awakened the American public, finally, to the peril of the theocratic future toward which the country has been hurtling...
Alabama lawmakers pass legislation to protect IVF treatment - The Washington Post
The Alabama legislature voted Thursday to protect providers and patients doing in vitro fertilization from criminal or civil liability if embryos they create are subsequently damaged or destroyed…
At the same time, Senate Republicans in Washington blocked legislationWednesday that would protect access to IVF…
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Alabama judge says God opposes IVF, but religions have varying views - The Washington Post
The Religious Action Center, the Reform movement's advocacy arm, and Women of Reform Judaism said on X, formerly Twitter, that they jointly reject the Alabama court's assessment that "frozen embryos have equal rights to babies. … The AL court has prioritized one Christian theological interpretation of personhood, infringing on the religious freedom of many Reform Jews and others with different views."…
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Alabama is using the notion that embryos are people to surveil and harass women
Using this logic, police in Alabama, and particularly in rural Etowah county, north-east of Birmingham, have repeatedly jailed women for allegedly using drugs ranging from marijuana to meth while pregnant – including women who have claimed that they did not use drugs, and women who turned out not to be pregnant. In 2021, Kim Blalock, a mother of six, was arrested on felony charges after filling a doctor's prescription during a pregnancy; the state of Alabama decided that it knew better than her doctor, and they could criminalize her for following medical advice.
This is not an extreme example: it is the logical conclusion of fetal personhood's legalization – the surveillance, jailing and draconian monitoring of pregnant women, an exercise in voyeuristic sadism justified by the flimsy pretext that it's all being done for the good of children. Except there are no children. Lest this seem like an idea that will necessarily be corrected by political response, or by the ultimate intervention of a federal court on the question, remember that Samuel Alito's majority opinion in Dobbs referred repeatedly to "unborn human beings"…
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Sam Alito’s Fake Christian Persecution (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #519)
— Alabama Supreme Court cites “wrath of a holy God” while claiming frozen embryos are “children.” (0:43)
— Sam Alito is big mad that anti-gay Christians were struck from the jury in a case about a lesbian. (29:57)
— Former Hillsong leader Brian Houston insists he wasn’t searching for “ladies and girls” online. (47:42)
— Texas school board trustees snuck an evangelical film crew into a public school. (1:01:18)
— Congress members call out “ill-qualified hate preacher” who gave invocation. (1:09:07)
Interview:
— Sam Alito is big mad that anti-gay Christians were struck from the jury in a case about a lesbian. (29:57)
— Former Hillsong leader Brian Houston insists he wasn’t searching for “ladies and girls” online. (47:42)
— Texas school board trustees snuck an evangelical film crew into a public school. (1:01:18)
— Congress members call out “ill-qualified hate preacher” who gave invocation. (1:09:07)
Interview:
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Doctors shocked and angry as Alabama ruling throws IVF care into turmoil
Declaration that IVF embryos are 'extrauterine children' means 'literally criminalizing standard medical care', physicians say…
The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy | Robert Reich | The Guardian
Alabama's supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are 'children' is a chilling example of the Republican party's extremism…
Friday, February 23, 2024
Biden campaign blames Trump for Alabama frozen embryo ruling
"The disregard for women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and their families is outrageous and unacceptable," Biden said in a statement.
"My message is: The Vice President and I are fighting for your rights."
"And we won't stop until we restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law for all women in every state," he said...
Opinion | Alabama’s I.V.F. Ruling Shows Our Slide Toward Theocracy - The New York Times
To those advancing these ideas, the will of God counts more than the will of the American people, even when Americans object or disagree...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children, imperiling IVF - The Washington Post
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are people and someone can be held liable for destroying them, a decision that reproductive rights advocates say could imperil in vitro fertilization (IVF) and affect the hundreds of thousands of patients who depend on treatments like it each year...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Monday, January 23, 2023
Opinion | Early Abortion Looks Nothing Like What You’ve Been Told - The New York Times
But showing these images is vital to counter misinformation, not only for patients but for our colleagues as well. Dr. Jeffrey Levine is a professor of family medicine and director of reproductive and gender health programs at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He's been teaching abortion care to fellows, residents and medical students for nearly two decades.
"When we examine the tissue after a procedure, everyone is consistently surprised. They expect to see an embryo, fetus or at least some body parts," he told us, describing the students' experience as "underwhelmed."…
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
America's next abortion law fight will be over fetal personhood
"And what about the disposal of embryos after a couple or individual determines they no longer wish to conceive? What might the penalties be if a pregnant person consumes alcohol or uses drugs while pregnant? Or if a pregnant person smokes? Or fails to follow proper nutritional guidelines? Or fails to follow bed rest orders in the case of a precarious pregnancy?"
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Embryos can be listed as dependents on tax returns, Georgia rules
Taxpayers in the state will be able to claim tax exemption for 'any unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat'…
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