In the wake of Alabama’s Supreme Court concluding that frozen embryos created through IVF count as “children” under state law, anti-abortion groups have jumped to say this moment offers a new chance to protect human life.
There are more than 450 fertility clinics across the country, and like most aspects of US health care, the IVF industry is regulated by a patchwork of federal and state rules as well as professional self-governance, all with varying levels of penalties and enforcement mechanisms.
The industry is “cavalier about rules, casual about paperwork, irritated by government interference,” David Plotz, a journalist who wrote a book about a mysterious sperm bank with highly elite and accomplished donors, once said.
It was blocked, however, by Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who claimed it had “poison pills” that would allegedly legalize human cloning and commercial surrogacy, subject anti-abortion groups to “crippling lawsuits,” and lift the federal ban “on the creation of three-parent embryos.” (The bill does not mention these things.)
Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, blasted the bill as part of Democrats’ “radical, Frankensteinian agenda.” Jordan Boyd, a staff writer for the Federalist, called it an attempt “to stifle oversight and regulation of Big Fertility.”
“The idea that my Access to Family Building Act would interfere with federal or state safety regulations surrounding IVF is a false claim aimed at distracting people from what my legislation would actually do,” Duckworth told Vox.
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In the wake of Alabama’s Supreme Court concluding that frozen embryos created through IVF count as “children” under state law, anti-abortion groups have jumped to say this moment offers a new chance to protect human life.
There are more than 450 fertility clinics across the country, and like most aspects of US health care, the IVF industry is regulated by a patchwork of federal and state rules as well as professional self-governance, all with varying levels of penalties and enforcement mechanisms.
The industry is “cavalier about rules, casual about paperwork, irritated by government interference,” David Plotz, a journalist who wrote a book about a mysterious sperm bank with highly elite and accomplished donors, once said.
It was blocked, however, by Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who claimed it had “poison pills” that would allegedly legalize human cloning and commercial surrogacy, subject anti-abortion groups to “crippling lawsuits,” and lift the federal ban “on the creation of three-parent embryos.” (The bill does not mention these things.)
Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, blasted the bill as part of Democrats’ “radical, Frankensteinian agenda.” Jordan Boyd, a staff writer for the Federalist, called it an attempt “to stifle oversight and regulation of Big Fertility.”
“The idea that my Access to Family Building Act would interfere with federal or state safety regulations surrounding IVF is a false claim aimed at distracting people from what my legislation would actually do,” Duckworth told Vox.
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an attempt to stifle oversight and regulation of Big Fertility?
Does Big Fertility turn conservatives into government supporters??