Democrats usually are not simply sitting by as Republicans attempt to gaslight People concerning 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 potential due to the elected Republican battle on Roe v. Wade and reproductive freedom pic.twitter.com/GCWFfaM4z7
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— Robyn Patterson (@RMPatterson46) February 25, 2024
“I’ve been speaking about this since 2018 when it was very clear that Republicans have been working to get rid of ladies’s reproductive rights,” Duckworth mentioned on ABC’s This Week. “I mentioned, if Neil Gorsuch will get placed on the Supreme Courtroom, if Amy Coney Barrett will get placed on the Supreme Courtroom, we’re gonna have an erosion of Roe v. Wade. And even again in 2018, I mentioned IVF is subsequent. They’ve mentioned they’re coming for IVF. So sadly, I wasn’t shocked.”
Jen Klein, Director of the White Home Gender Coverage Council, wasn’t having it both. “Ladies on this nation are being denied entry to emergency rooms once they’re in the course of having an emergency, whether or not they want an abortion or they’re having a miscarriage,” Klein mentioned on MSNBC’s The Weekend.
“What simply occurred in Alabama is fertility clinics are actually closed. They’re uncertain what to do. And these are individuals who desperately need a household, who desperately need a baby – and now are uncertain if that’s authorized to do of 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 People who need households are scared it isn’t authorized of their states. pic.twitter.com/GEacB6OQQs
— Robyn Patterson (@RMPatterson46) February 25, 2024
How we bought 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 robust response towards the Alabama ruling towards IVF primarily based on the Republican argument used to overturn Roe v Wade by a conservative Supreme Courtroom, Republicans have been informed to get on the market and deny deny deny. They have been informed to precise 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 Courtroom dominated that frozen embryos utilized in IVF are kids and have authorized protections underneath the state’s ‘personhood’ legal guidelines.”
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 vital as a result of it helps {couples} “breed.”
Rep. Byron Donalds on Meet the Press says IVF is vital to {couples} as a result of it helps them “breed nice households.” pic.twitter.com/WeO20BGvMk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2024
Republicans try 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 effectively conscious of for a minimum of 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 loss of life of their frozen embryos.
This triggered 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 is no such thing as a method out of this one: It’s both come what may. Republicans can equivocate about in utero versus in an IVF lab, however that argument undercuts their complete premise. Both life beings at conception or it doesn’t.
Oh, and by the best way, 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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