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In A World Without Roe, Time May Be Running Out For IVF Too

Rich white women finally have some skin in the game.

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clock-1031503_1280Attention career-focused women in Biglaw whose 15-year plan involves staving off having children until after 40 so that you can have it all post-making partner — there may be a monkey wrench on the way. Many are aware that the foretold end of Roe will make it much harder for Americans to end pregnancies. Less discussed, though no less prescient, is that it will also make it much more difficult for Americans to have them.

In vitro fertilization treatment is facing a “clear and present danger” and could be a “casualty” of some of the proposed anti-abortion laws that are emerging across the US, according to an advocate of reproductive medicine.

The warning comes as US states, including Louisiana, have passed or are debating new proposed legislation that would give full rights to embryos, which in some cases means fertilized eggs

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Experts say that the passage of so-called “personhood” laws, which give rights to fertilized eggs, could dramatically curtail the availability and practice of IVF in some states, and could in effect make it illegal for IVF facilities to freeze or discard embryos created in the process.

Despite the prohibitive costs which can range anywhere from $20k to $100k and above, many people have paid the costs associated with exercising the choice and decision to have a child — about 1 million children were born in the US through the use of IVF between the years 1987 and 2015. As the rhetoric that personhood begins at conception takes hold, you should expect to see that number dwindle over time.

I wonder if the face of the pro-choice movement will change once people realize that the laws impact six-figure folks too.

IVF Treatment Faces ‘Clear And Present Danger’ From US Anti-Abortion Effort [The Guardian]

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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