Article 640MW US anti-abortion extremists are already waging war on IVF | Arwa Mahdawi

US anti-abortion extremists are already waging war on IVF | Arwa Mahdawi

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Arwa Mahdawi
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Republicans have made it very clear that they aren't going to stop at abortion: they're coming for birth control and fertility treatments

Going through fertility treatment isn't fun at the best of times: it's expensive, invasive and emotionally exhausting. Ever since Roe v Wade was overturned earlier this year, however, getting fertility treatments in the US has become exponentially more stressful; the end of Roe triggered a spate of new personhood bills in Republican states which define a fertilized egg or embryo as a legal human entity. If you know anything about in vitro fertilization (IVF), which I'm not sure any of the men drafting these personhood bills do, you'll immediately know that makes IVF hugely complex. Numerous embryos are usually created during the IVF process as not all will be genetically viable. Unviable embryos, along with embryos that aren't donated or frozen for later use, will be disposed. If these collections of cells are considered people then, according to the personhood laws, you've committed a crime by disposing of them.

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