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Republicans lawmakers want to ‘Alabama’ our Arizona | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

There’s a chilling familiarity to this story coming out of Alabama. I remember all too well when, in June of 2022, abortion clinics closed down all across the state of Arizona. It was two weeks after my own procedure, following a failed pregnancy that my husband and I desperately wanted. I remember the pit in […]

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Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections | News | #elections | #alabama

CHICAGO (AP) — The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have families through fertility treatments. It also has turned the spotlight on the importance of institutions that are poised to play a central in this year’s […]

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Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections | National | #elections | #alabama

CHICAGO (AP) — The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have families through fertility treatments. It also has turned the spotlight on the importance of institutions that are poised to play a central in this year’s […]

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Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections | #elections | #alabama

CHICAGO (AP) — The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have families through fertility treatments. It also has turned the spotlight on the importance of institutions that are poised to play a central in this year’s […]

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Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections | #elections | #alabama

CHICAGO — CHICAGO (AP) — The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have families through fertility treatments. It also has turned the spotlight on the importance of institutions that are poised to play a central in […]

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Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections | #elections | #alabama

CHICAGO – The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have families through fertility treatments. It also has turned the spotlight on the importance of institutions that are poised to play a central in this year’s elections: […]

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Alabama Lawmakers Vote To Protect IVF In Wake Of Court Ruling | #elections | #alabama

Lawmakers in the southern US state of Alabama passed legislation Thursday to protect health workers from legal liability after the state’s supreme court ruled frozen embryos are children. Bills “to provide civil and criminal immunity” to people providing such care cleared both Republican-controlled chambers, the legislature’s official webpage showed. The deeply conservative state’s Republican governor, […]

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Republicans block Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would protect access to in vitro fertilization, objecting to a vote on the issue Wednesday even after widespread backlash to a recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that threatens the practice. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, objected to a request for a vote by […]

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More Alabama IVF providers pause treatment after court ruling on frozen embryos | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Additional in vitro fertilization providers in Alabama paused services Thursday, sending patients scrambling to make other plans in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that said frozen embryos could be considered children under state law. Doctors and patients have been grappling with shock and fear this week as they try […]

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Alabama IVF ruling puts spotlight on state plans for tax breaks and child support for fetuses | #elections | #alabama

TOPEKA, Kan. — The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S. Lawmakers in at least six states have proposed […]

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