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Alabama

Democrat Marilyn Lands wins Alabama District 10 on abortion platform | #elections | #alabama

A Democrat won a contentious special election Tuesday for a state house seat in Alabama, in win that could signal the dominant role of abortion and in-vitro fertilization in elections across the country in 2024. Marilyn Lands beat Republican Teddy Powell in a race for the seat that was left vacant after former Republican Rep. David Cole […]

Alabama

Alabama Democrat wins special election with abortion, IVF message | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Democrat Marilyn Lands won a contentious special election for a state house seat in deep-red Alabama on Tuesday night, in a race that could signal the dominant role of abortion and in-vitro fertilization in elections across the country in 2024. Lands, a licensed professional counselor, beat Republican Teddy Powell, a Madison City Council member, in the […]

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Will Alabama IVF ruling motivate voters in state for 2024 election? | #elections | #alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — When Ashley Stork first gave birth to her daughter, the moment felt very “surreal.” For years, Stork didn’t know if she’d ever have children. She experienced a miscarriage in 2010 and an ectopic pregnancy in 2017 that resulted in the removal of her left fallopian tube. “It was very lonely and very […]

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Rep. Lori Trahan talks IVF experience ahead of Biden SOTU | #elections | #alabama

The daily injections, the multiple surgeries, the constant visits with doctors, the emotional, physical, financial, burden—and the frequent heartbreak: Rep. Lori Trahan, Democrat of Massachusetts, remembers those days painfully well. She is one of hundreds of thousands of women who turn to IVF, or in vitro fertilization, every year as the “last hope” to start […]

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Senate Republicans reject national protections | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON – Republican lawmakers came out in droves over the weekend to say they support in vitro fertilization in the wake of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children. But Senate Democrats plan to test that support, putting up legislation on Wednesday to outlaw limitations on “assisted reproductive technology” such […]

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Will Alabama IVF ruling sway voters from Trump to Biden? | #elections | #alabama

With two healthy boys born by IVF, Crystal Rusch and her husband faced a deeply difficult decision: What should they do with their three remaining embryos that could one day become more children? As Catholics, Rusch and her husband always believed in the sanctity of life, and they didn’t want just destroy their embryos they […]

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Haley supports the Alabama IVF ruling. She actually misunderstands it | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is applauding a legal decision in Alabama that, if applied nationally, could affect family planning for hundreds of thousands of patients who undergo in vitro fertilization to get pregnant. After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that the embryos created during IVF are “extrauterine children,” Haley told NBC News […]

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Alabama Supreme Court frozen embryos decision may imperil IVF | #elections | #alabama

The IVF community is reeling from a new Alabama court decision that embryos created during the in-vitro fertilization process are “extrauterine children” and legally protected like any other child. IVF advocates say the ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court could have far-reaching consequences for millions of Americans struggling to get pregnant, especially those living in […]

Mayor

North Jersey mayor swears in son to council

SADDLE RIVER — Like father like son? Albert and Jon Kurpis would agree. Mayor Albert Kurpis, 75, was sworn to his third term earlier this month, and in turn, swore in his son Jon Kurpis to his first term as councilman. Jon, 46, had previously served as head of the borough’s landmark and environmental commissions, […]