This week, lawmakers in Congress once again scrambled to avert a government shutdown, and negotiations opened with a Republican proposal that pushed for a national fetal personhood law — which nearly every GOP Representative from Arizona supported. On Wednesday, the Republican Study Committee released a budget plan that advanced more than three dozen anti-abortion bills. […] The post Where do Arizona’s congressional Republicans stand on IVF? appeared first on Arizona Mirror.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruling that granted legal personhood to frozen embryos puts a new spotlight on states with laws that confer rights on fetuses from the moment of fertilization.
Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesRepublican legislators have mothballed a bill that would allow Floridians to sue over the wrongful death of a fetus in the wake of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children, causing several clinics in the state to halt in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment.The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Erin Grall, requested a vote scheduled to be held Monday in the Florida Senate Rules Committee be postponed. In an emailed statement to the Tampa Ba
A bill allowing Floridians to collect civil damages for the wrongful death of an “unborn child” hit a roadblock on Monday, potentially dooming the controversial measure with about two weeks remaining in this year’s legislative session. State Sen. Erin Grall pulled the measure (SB 476), which critics contended could lead to “fetal personhood,” before an important committee meeting, a move that .
The high court ruling that the “wrongful death of a minor” law could be applied to an embryo created through in vitro fertilization is another extremist strategy in the criminalization of pregnant people.