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February 23, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republicans Are in Panic Mode After Alabama IVF Ruling
The Republican Senate campaign arm put out a memo urging everyone to get their story straight on the Alabama Supreme Court’s embryo ruling.
February 23, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Confused Tuberville Completely Flounders on Alabama IVF Embryo Ruling
The Alabama senator took three different positions on that Alabama court’s embryo ruling in less than two minutes.
February 23, 2024
Grace Segers
When a Failed Pregnancy Becomes a Crime
The Alabama IVF ruling has stoked fears that patients and their health care providers might soon be subject to criminal prosecution in cases where a hoped-for birth goes wrong.
February 22, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Nikki Haley Desperately Tries to Walk Back Comment on Alabama Embryo Ruling
As hospitals across Alabama pause IVF treatments, Nikki Haley is suddenly trying to claim she never said what she said.
February 22, 2024
Matt Ford
Alabama’s IVF Ruling Is a Dire Warning to Other States
The state's embrace of fetal personhood has had terrible, if unintended, consequences that will kill many families' dreams of having children.
February 22, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
Alabama’s Unhinged Embryo Ruling Shows Where the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Headed
The Christian right is paving the way for a world without abortion or IVF, but with lots of embryo adoptions.
February 21, 2024
Tori Otten
That Alabama Court Embryo Ruling Is Already Having Tragic Effects
Critics warned that the ruling would hurt anyone seeking IVF in the state—and they were right.
February 19, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling
The Alabama Supreme Court’s decision is all but guaranteed to gut IVF in the entire state.
August 8, 2018
Emma Scornavacchi
The Glaring Exception in the Coming Battle Over Reproductive Rights
Why an empowered anti-abortion movement is reluctant to take on in-vitro fertilization.
December 12, 2014
Allison Yarrow
How to Get Pregnant With a Racquetball
The DIY crowd is revolutionizing artificial insemination
February 14, 2013
Liza Mundy
The Strange History of the Birth Certificate
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