In the wake of the state’s ruling that embryos are ‘extrauterine children’, people in the US are terrified their state will be next
Tucker Legerski and his wife, Megan, have spent more than two years and tens of thousands of dollars trying to have a baby.
Married since 2021, the Alabama couple last year embarked on in-vitro fertilization (IVF). After they retrieved eggs, a specialist combined those eggs with sperm to create four quality embryos. Last fall, they successfully transferred one embryo, resulting in a pregnancy – but eight weeks in, it ended in a miscarriage. The couple had planned to attempt another embryo transfer in the fall.
But now, in the wake of an Alabama supreme court decision that ruled that embryos are “extrauterine children”, the Legerskis don’t know what will happen to their hopes of having children in Alabama. At least three Alabama IVF providers, including the Legerskis’, have paused their IVF operations, leaving the Legerskis’ remaining three embryos stuck in icy storage.
What’s the over under for when the first amber alert is issued for an embryo?
I am going under, with Never.
It would show their hand and be counterproductive.
I’d say their current course of action is counterproductive as well. They overplayed their hand. Families moving out of state and not raising children under these oppressive conditions means the state will lose representatives and electoral votes when time the next census comes around. It’s still a ways off, but this decision is going to backfire in the long run.
Yay for the fact that conservatives have short horizons, I guess? Lol.