{"id":1035922,"date":"2024-06-13T19:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1035922"},"modified":"2024-06-13T19:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:55:25","slug":"icymi-thanks-to-donald-trump-ivf-is-at-risk-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-thanks-to-donald-trump-ivf-is-at-risk-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Thanks to Donald Trump, IVF is at Risk in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on nationwide IVF protections to combat the ongoing assault on reproductive freedoms by MAGA Republicans, new reporting from Mother Jones shows that the North Carolina Republican Party\u2019s state platform calls for the government to legislate life as beginning at conception and opposes the destruction of embryos \u2013 mirroring the policies that imperiled IVF access in Alabama. Thanks to Donald Trump, who paved the way for states to wreak havoc on reproductive rights and continues to applaud those draconian efforts, women in North Carolina, and nearly every state across the south, are living under an abortion ban and in constant fear that Republicans will take their attacks even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cAlabama\u2019s supreme court decision sent Republicans scrambling to clarify their views on IVF, which is supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4507514-overwhelming-majority-americans-support-keeping-ivf-legal-for-women-poll\/\">86 percent<\/a> of the population. But, in the wake of this uproar over reproductive freedom, the GOP in one battleground state is reaffirming a controversial position that may make IVF much more complicated. In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgopconvention.org\/uploads\/source\/Docs\/2024%20Platform%20Report.pdf\">official 2024 platform<\/a>, the North Carolina Republican Party says, without qualification, that it opposes the destruction of human embryos. \u201cWe support developments in biomedical research that enhance and protect human life, including stem cell research. We oppose human cloning and the destruction of human embryos,\u201d the 17-page document states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/06\/north-carolinas-gop-opposes-embryo-destruction-that-could-threaten-ivf\/\"><strong>Mother Jones<\/strong><\/a><strong>: North Carolina\u2019s GOP Opposes Embryo Destruction. That Could Threaten IVF.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Abby Vesoulis, 06\/12\/2024]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In February, the conservative Alabama Supreme Court delivered an unprecedented opinion, ruling that failing to protect an embryo from destruction is the legal equivalent of failing to prevent a human child from dying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Alabama\u2019s supreme court decision sent Republicans scrambling to clarify their views on IVF, which is supported by 86 percent of the population. But, in the wake of this uproar over reproductive freedom, the GOP in one battleground state is reaffirming a controversial position that may make IVF much more complicated. In its official 2024 platform, the North Carolina Republican Party says, without qualification, that it opposes the destruction of human embryos.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in March that policymakers, especially state lawmakers, need to grapple with these issues. Lawmakers \u201cneed to look at the ethics surrounding\u201d IVF. \u201cIf you do believe that life begins at conception, it\u2019s a really important question to wrestle with.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s something that every state has to wrestle with,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cAlabama has done a good job of it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If embryo use is regulated, IVF will become more complicated. \u201cNot all eggs will make embryos and not all the embryos will make babies,\u201d says Dr. Sigal Klipstein, a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist in Illinois. \u201cIt\u2019s not really predictable. So invariably, in some cases, patients will have extra embryos.\u201d<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IVF patients will have to navigate what to do with their embryos that can\u2019t be implanted for various reasons.\u201cWhat happens if the embryo is not viable? What if we know it will miscarry or not implant\u2014is that an embryo that should be discarded? What about embryos that carry disease? There are a number of downstream effects. And I think the most interesting one is what happens to these embryos? Who pays for that storage? Who maintains that storage? Should patients be obligated to maintain embryos they no longer need? This places undue limits on their reproductive liberty,\u201d Klipstein says.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reproductive rights are a touchstone issue of the 2024 election, with several states attempting ballot measures to enshrine abortion access. Democrats are betting that such measures could buoy Democratic candidates in the process. North Carolina\u2019s Republican legislature has gone against popular opinion in the state and against their Democratic governor by overriding his veto of a 12-week abortion ban the GOP passed earlier this spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Democratic National Committee spokesperson Jackie Bush says the North Carolina GOP\u2019s position on embryos is another example of their war on reproductive autonomy. Republicans in North Carolina \u201care attempting to rip away women\u2019s reproductive rights, including North Carolinians\u2019 ability to grow their families through IVF.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Meanwhile, congressional Republicans\u2019 widely backed Life at Conception Act defines a \u201chuman being\u201d to \u201cinclude 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>That bill provides any fertilized egg\u2014perhaps one in a petri dish\u2014protection under the 14th Amendment \u201cfor the right to life of each born and preborn human person.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It\u2019s inconsistent to simultaneously hold that fertilized eggs are equivalent to children and can\u2019t be disposed of, and that a fertility treatment that routinely results in the disposal of some fertilized eggs is permitted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you\u2019re bewildered by that contradiction, so are fertility specialists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on nationwide IVF protections to combat the ongoing assault on reproductive freedoms by MAGA Republicans, new reporting from Mother Jones shows that the North Carolina Republican Party\u2019s state platform calls for the government to legislate life as beginning at conception and opposes the destruction of embryos \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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