On Thursday, President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign blamed former President Donald Trump for recent Alabama Supreme Court decisions. decision on in vitro fertilization and the University of Alabama-Birmingham’s subsequent decision to stop IVF treatment in response to the decision.
“What’s happening in Alabama right now is only possible because Donald Trump’s Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement. “MAGA Republicans across the nation are including themselves in the most personal decisions a family can make, from contraception to IVF.”
“With their latest attacks on reproductive freedom, these so-called pro-life Republicans are preventing loving couples from raising their families,” she said. “If Donald Trump is elected, there is no doubt that he will impose his extreme anti-liberty agenda on the entire country.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that embryos created through in vitro fertilization are children under state law. causing legal concerns between doctors and patients on unused embryos discarded in the process.
This was reported by the University of Alabama in Birmingham on Wednesday Will stop IVF treatments taking into account the decision of the high court, citing the possible legal consequences of the decision.
“We regret that this will affect our patients’ attempts to conceive through IVF, but we must appreciate the potential for our patients and doctors to face criminal charges or penalties for following the standard of care for IVF treatments.” The spokesperson of the university made a statement.
Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, have called for the Supreme Court’s 2022 Roe v. They protested the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision after overturning the Wade case, calling it another threat to reproductive rights.
“This decision is outrageous and it already takes away women’s freedom to decide when and how they want to marry,” Harris said. Send to Xformerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley supported the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF decision. Interview with NBC News On Wednesday, when asked if he agreed with the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that embryos created through IVF are considered children and are afforded the same protections, he said frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization are “babies.”
“Embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley told NBC News. “When you’re talking about an embryo, you’re talking about a life for me. So when they talk about it, I can see where it’s coming from.
But Haley later said she disagreed with the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision, saying her personal position is that embryos are babies.
“I didn’t say I agreed with Alabama’s decision,” Haley said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.
Haley continued that the goal of medical professionals “is always to do what the parents want with their embryos – theirs,” adding, “So every doctor who oversees these embryos owes it to those people. making sure that they protect that embryo and that the parents do what they want with that embryo.
Ali Vitaly, Alex Rhoades, Sarah Dean and Aria Bendix contributed.