IVF – Page 3 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

11 Sep

Trump and Harris’ views on abortion and IVF access, explained

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Rights, candidates, Election, Harris, IVF, presidential debate, Trump, United States

“Abortion is one of the issues that could drive voters' decisions in the November election, the first presidential contest held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago and paved the way for 22 states to restrict access to the procedure. Going into the 2024 election, the two presidential nominees, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, have talked about their views of and stances on abortion and and what the future might hold for abortion access if elected….”

12 Aug

Potential threats to IVF push political novices into election-year advocacy

BarbraLatest NewsIVF, Reproductive rights, Vote, Voters

Marilyn Gomez was sitting at her kitchen table in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Feb. 16 when news alerts and friends’ texts began pinging her phone: The all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court had ruled that frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization were children under state law. That meant providers could be held liable for discarding them, a common part of the IVF process.https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/08/12/potential-threats-to-ivf-push-political-novices-into-election-year-advocacy/

23 Jul

Cook to divest reproductive business to private equity company

BarbraLatest NewsART, International, IVF, reproductive technology

The sale includes Cook’s in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and assisted reproductive technology (ART) products, along with a Pennsylvania manufacturing site, Cook Vandergrift. After the deal closes, Astrog plans to combine the Cook ART portfolio with Hamilton Thorne, which also has an ART portfolio of its own.

17 Jul

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, IVF, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

08 Jul

Why we’re actually fighting over a medical procedure that allows the infertile to have children

AlanLatest Newsconception, IVF, Opinion, United States, US Senate

Not long ago, in vitro fertilization — the medical process by which human sperm and ovum are united in clinical conditions outside a woman’s body and later implanted, giving the otherwise childless a chance at having a child — would have met scant resistance in the chambers of political power.

07 Jul

GOP, Sen. Scott struggle to navigate politics of IVF

BarbraLatest NewsHealthcare, IUD, IVF, United States

It’s an election-year battle that has U.S. Sen. Rick Scott touting himself in new ads as a “grandpa” who supports in vitro fertilization and Democrats traveling the state with a 20-foot-tall inflatable IUD.

17 Jun

Reproductive rights organizations: “Human beings are dying” because of state policies

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Alabama, Healthcare, IVF

Reproductive healthcare advocacy organizations sound alarm about negative trends in Alabama healthcare, blaming recent restrictions on abortion and IVF

15 Jun

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

BarbraLatest NewsHealthcare, IVF, legislation, Reprocuctive Rights, United States

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

MollyLatest News, United States"Abortion Abolitionists", Abortion, Fertility Clinic, Health care, IVF, North Carolina, Reproductive Health, Reproductive rights, Republicans, United States

"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

BarbraLatest NewsGeriatric Pregnancy, Healthcare, International, IVF, Mother's Day

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

BarbraLatest NewsAlabama, Alabama Supreme Court, Body Autonomy, IVF, United States

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

TobysFundLatest News, United StatesAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, Abortion Pills, Abortion Rights, Alabama, Healthcare, IVF, legislation, Red States, Reproductive rights, United States

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

BarbraLatest News, United StatesIVF, Reproductive rights, Republicans, United States

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

TobysFundLatest News, United StatesAbortion Advocates, Abortion Ban, Abortion Care, Abortion Pills, Abortion Rights, Abortion Rights Activists, Alabama, Alabama Supreme Court, Embryos, Healthcare, IVF, legislation, Reproductive Health, Roe v Wade, United States

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.