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Trump wants a ‘baby boom,’ but an ultra-conservative agenda may hurt IVF access
The recent attack on a California fertility clinic has placed in vitro fertilization back into the national spotlight, but experts in the field say that a conservative focus on natural conception is an even bigger threat to IVF access.
While the administration has been seeking counsel from some providers and experts, one of the nation’s most prominent IVF medical and advocacy groups, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, told CNN it has been notably excluded from the conversation. But the issue of fetal personhood at the heart of the Alabama court’s decision isn’t going away, says University of California, Davis Law Professor Mary Ziegler, and the public backlash has not deterred other states from wading into the debate. The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant body, also passed a resolution last year asserting embryos are human beings and urged its members to weigh the “ethical implications” of IVF.
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