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Ex U.S. spies warned the Hunter Biden scandal had Russian fingerprints. They feel vindicated now. (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 9 months ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/politics

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[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, hospitals in that state had to stop performing IVF as a consequence in order to avoid being at risk of violating the law. Classifying embryos as children has really important consequences.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My point was that nobody in government said anything about banning IVF or coming after IVF doctors. That was just extrapolation from what the court was talking about, in the course of making ultimately to me a perfectly sensible decision about the facts of the case they were looking at. Right? Like I say, unless I missed something.

I don't think the hospitals "had to" stop performing IVF. I think they came up with that as an extrapolation from this one ruling.

I do think it's "sensible" in the current political climate for the hospitals to stop IVF until things are clarified, and I do think it's an indictment of the general anti-abortion-to-the-point-of-negligent-homicide feeling in the Republican party that they felt they had to do that. But nobody actually wants to ban IVF, as far as I know. That was my point. I think the state is probably backpedaling hard now to try to figure out how to undo this shitstorm and make it clear that they support IVF without looking "weak" on abortion somehow.

I'm not trying to take them off the hook for anything. Just trying to clarify, that's all.