Nobody Could Have Foreseen

How it started. How it’s going. pic.twitter.com/iZHhytadsg

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) February 21, 2024

 Well, she was a Black woman, so…

In other news, you heard it here first:

How it started. How it’s going. pic.twitter.com/K1lhL03ZjS

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) February 21, 2024

There's a lot of concern for the future of fertility treatment in Alabama now.

The major university hospital in Alabama ceases IVF procedures out of fear of criminal prosecution. https://t.co/eMpqijdJGQ

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) February 21, 2024

“We must evaluate the potential that our patients and our physicians could be prosecuted criminally or face punitive damages for following the standard of care for IVF treatments,” Echols wrote in the email.

It is a feature of IVF that multiple eggs are harvested and fertilized and used at one time to increase the odds of conception to at least one. And quite often even that fails. It’s quite literally a last resort effort. And if it does work, the still frozen embryos are often discarded.

If every embryo is a person, what is the legal consequence of  that? Or even of a miscarriage? For non-white women in Alabama, of course. I mean, be reasonable!

The kids' favorite auntie went through quite a lot before she was able to finally have their now-3yo daughter (in Utah, of all places). I can't imagine such cruelty of a state.

The Lovely Wife and I came damned close to IVF over 30 years ago. 

Except for health and safety concerns (i.e., the usual), it’s none of the state’s goddamned business.