IVF – Page 3 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

15 Jun

Why some health experts are worried after Southern Baptists vote to oppose IVF

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The vote to oppose IVF for the first time worries some of a growing push among conservative groups to expand restrictions on reproductive choice.

21 May

Republicans try to soften stance on abortion as ‘abolitionists’ go farther

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"As some Republicans try to moderate their messaging on abortion over concerns about voter backlash this November, some activists are trying to go much further. Outside a fertility clinic in Charlotte, N.C., last month, dozens of protestors lined both sides of the street, as some shouted toward the closed front door. "How many children are in the freezer here? How many?" one man yelled, interspersing his speech with Bible verses...."

12 May

Mother’s Day 2024 health special: Can older women enjoy motherhood through IVF? Know facts and myths

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n Vitro Fertilization has improved chances of live birth rate but is it the same when older women choose IVF? This Mother's Day 2024, know facts from myths

03 Apr

Mobile clinic to end IVF program amid litigation over frozen embryos

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Infirmary Health in Mobile will shut down its IVF services at the end of the year.

16 Mar

How IVF is complicating Republicans’ abortion messaging

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In-vitro fertilization has become the latest front in the political battle over reproductive rights, and it's left some Republicans grappling with how to square their support for IVF with their past stances on reproductive rights.

03 Mar

Alabama passes IVF protections while red states still push ‘personhood’ abortion laws

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All but six state legislatures are now in session, and abortion-related bills continue to be introduced, especially in states where the procedure is already banned. It can be hard to monitor them all, so States Newsroom’s Reproductive Rights Today team will track certain bills that could become law in their respective states in a biweekly legislative roundup.

28 Feb

US Senate Republicans block Democrats’ bill assuring right to IVF

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Democrats on Wednesday failed in an attempt to rush legislation through the U.S. Senate guaranteeing Americans' access to in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies, after an Alabama court designated frozen embryos as children.

24 Feb

‘We knew’: Abortion rights advocates who predicted the Alabama ruling warn about more restrictions

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The Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week that embryos are people, imperiling in vitro fertilization, shocked many Americans. But the decision was vindicating for abortion rights activists who have warned for years that the fall of Roe v. Wade would put other forms of reproductive health care on the chopping block.