A verdict this week by the Alabama Supreme Court that put future access to in vitro fertilisation in jeopardy alarmed several Republicans as well as Democrats, providing President Joe Biden’s allies with fresh impetus to push abortion access as a central campaign issue.
While visiting South Carolina this week to campaign for former President Donald Trump, Republican Representative Nancy Mace stated, “We have to talk about making sure we don’t take away women’s rights to IVF, women who are childbearing age and want to give birth to children.” She continued, “I’ll be working very hard to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
Abortion rights are a key political motivator for Democrats and left-leaning interest organisations in the 2016 presidential election.
“On the one hand, the proponents are saying that an individual doesn’t have a right to end an unwanted pregnancy and, on the other hand, the individual does not have the right to start a family,” she told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court decided on Wednesday that, according to state law, frozen embryos produced through IVF are children. This decision could subject families and clinics to criminal penalties or punitive damages. In reaction, while they rushed to determine the implications of the verdict, the biggest hospital in the state and at least two other providers put a halt to IVF treatments.
Regarding the decision, Trump refrained from publicly commenting, and his campaign did not immediately answer a request for comment. Trump was the clear front-runner in the Republican primaries.
Rep. Alex Mooney, a Republican from Massachusetts, is Mooney’s son. “Embryos are a potential child,” she stated. “And the moment they’re fertilised, I think they become human beings.”
At a campaign event on Thursday afternoon, Pat Parsley, 76, of Georgetown, South Carolina, who was awaiting word from Haley, expressed her desire for the former governor of South Carolina to secure the nomination while denouncing the Alabama judgement.
“That seems pretty unsettling to me. It terrifies women. Families find it frightening,” Parsley added, adding that she thinks women should have the last say over abortion. I’m relieved that I’m not a young lady at this time. I’m sorry to say that. The reality that young women must face is that we have regressed.”
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