Democrats Push Actuality as Republicans Attempt to Gaslight Nation About IVF

Democrats are usually not simply sitting by as Republicans attempt to gaslight People in regards to the inevitable penalties of their anti-abortion legal guidelines.

It wasn’t simply Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) who took down the Republican makes an attempt to backtrack on their assaults on IVF and reproductive rights.

Senator Tammy Duckworth tied Republican assaults on IVF to their anti-abortion rhetoric that led to the overturning of Roe.

On ABC’s This Week, @SenDuckworth reminded viewers that assaults on IVF are doable due to the elected Republican warfare on Roe v. Wade and reproductive freedom pic.twitter.com/GCWFfaM4z7

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— Robyn Patterson (@RMPatterson46) February 25, 2024

“I’ve been speaking about this since 2018 when it was very clear that Republicans had been working to eradicate girls’s reproductive rights,” Duckworth stated on ABC’s This Week. “I stated, if Neil Gorsuch will get placed on the Supreme Court docket, if Amy Coney Barrett will get placed on the Supreme Court docket, we’re gonna have an erosion of Roe v. Wade. And even again in 2018, I stated IVF is subsequent. They’ve stated they’re coming for IVF. So sadly, I wasn’t shocked.”

Jen Klein, Director of the White Home Gender Coverage Council, wasn’t having it both. “Ladies on this nation are being denied entry to emergency rooms once they’re in the course of having an emergency, whether or not they want an abortion or they’re having a miscarriage,” Klein stated on MSNBC’s The Weekend.

“What simply occurred in Alabama is fertility clinics are actually closed. They’re not sure what to do. And these are individuals who desperately desire a household, who desperately desire a youngster – and now are not sure if that’s authorized to do of their state,” Klein added.

On @TheWeekendMSNBC:

The White Home’s Jen Klein made clear that regardless of Republican claims about supporting IVF, girls throughout red-states are being denied entry to care, fertility clinics are closing, and People who need households are scared it isn’t authorized of their states. pic.twitter.com/GEacB6OQQs

— Robyn Patterson (@RMPatterson46) February 25, 2024

How we obtained right here:

Republicans are attempting to run away from their very own insurance policies

What’s behind all of that is the conservative notion of “personhood” attributed, however solely when handy, to embryos. There are lots of apparent ramifications from this unfounded perception, which Republicans have been properly conscious of for a minimum of 20 years, so denial at this level beggars perception.

The underside line is that if “life begins at conception” as they argue, then embryos are human beings. The Alabama ruling allowed mother and father to sue for wrongful loss of life of their frozen embryos.

This precipitated a number of fertilization clinics to stop their work, out of concern that they “could possibly be held accountable for embryos which are destroyed or misplaced.” The Alabama AG then tried to reassure everybody that he received’t prosecute IVF clinics and households.

Nevertheless, the Alabama Supreme Court docket referred to IVF cryotanks the place embryos are saved as “cryogenic nurser(ies).” That will surely give pause to anybody involved about authorized legal responsibility.

Logically, there isn’t any means out of this one: It’s both somehow. Republicans can equivocate about in utero versus in an IVF lab, however that argument undercuts their whole premise. Both life beings at conception or it doesn’t.

Oh, and by the best way, all of us noticed this coming. It’s the inevitable subsequent step of their premise, which has no medical or scientific basis. If solely Republicans hadn’t overturned Roe, their illogical assaults on freedom might have flown largely underneath the radar.

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