[Editorial]
I imagine you all heard about the Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling on In-Vitro Fertilization. The Republican response was very interesting! There were hi-fives, praise for the judges, and a rash of bills to spread the ruling to their states.
The antiabortion bill in the House has no provisions for processes like in vitro fertilizationThe Washington PostBy Mariana AlfaroFebruary 25, 2024Prominent congressional Republicans are coming out in support of in vitro fertilization days after the Alabama state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are people and therefore that someone can be held liable for destroying them.[…]The congressional proposal, known as the Life at Conception Act, defines a “human being” to “include each member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization or cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.” The bill would also provide equal protection under the 14th Amendment “for the right to life of each born and preborn human person.”
And it is not just Speaker Johnson.
The legislation is co-sponsored by 125 Republicans in the House, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who, in the wake of the Alabama ruling, said in a statement to The Washington Post that he supports efforts to allow IVF treatments because he believes “the life of every single child has inestimable dignity and value.
Politico wrote,
The court’s decision left the GOP scrambling to answer the philosophical — as well as the logistical, medical and legal implications — that the ruling raised about how to handle unimplanted, viable embryos.At the same time that they are professing support for IVF, dozens of congressional Republicans have signed onto so-called personhood legislation with no carve-out for embryos in clinics, which, if enacted, would upend how the procedure is practiced in the United States.
There were a lot of jumping up and down… We’ve done it!!!!! Abortion is illegal from conception! Then the reality set in with the strong pushback, the really, really strong pushback… then they realized that they FU royally. They looked like a kid caught with their hands in the cookie jar. But i another Politico article,
In a memo sent by National Republican Senatorial Committee Executive Director Jason Thielman, the party’s campaign apparatus instructs candidates to “Clearly state your support for IVF and fertility-related services as blessings for those seeking to have children” and to “Publicly oppose any efforts to restrict access to IVF and other fertility treatments, framing such opposition as a defense of family values and individual freedom.”
So now they are saying we didn’t really mean it! And they are all back peddling, but notice they haven’t pulled any of the bills. CNN Politics wrote…
Republicans who expressed support for in vitro fertilization in the wake of the controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling are coming under scrutiny for also backing legislation that declares human life begins at conception, without an exception for IVF — two positions that appear to be at odds with one another, in the latest example of Republicans struggling to thread the needle on reproductive rights issues.The Life at Conception Act – which was introduced in January 2023 by GOP Rep. Alex Mooney of West Virginia and has 125 total Republican sponsors in the House, including House Speaker Mike Johnson – defines the term “human being” to include “all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.”The bill does not include a carveout for IVF, though it does state that nothing in the bill should “be construed to authorize the prosecution of any woman for the death of her unborn child.”
You can’t trust Republicans, they lie through their teeth. Their true colors showed… no matter their lie, how much they back peddled they want to ban ALL ABORTIONS!
One of the many problems with the GOP is that they are hypocrites. If they want to be pro-life, they would make sure that no stigma is attached to unwed mothers, that children qualify for FREE child care, so that their mothers can get work if needed, that FREE pre-natal care would be given to the mother, that work schedules accommodate mothers, and that given a choice between the life of an nonviable fetus and a living potential mother, that her health is made the utmost priority.
ReplyDeleteWe know the GOP's true colors, and it is that of a Fascist Christian Nationalist state. Once we saw Tommy Tubberville spout that we need more babies, and showing no consideration for the families being denied IVF because of Alabama's recent court ruling, we knew that the only thing that the GOP wants is a real life Handmaiden's Tale.
It's so sad....