The battle to protect IVF
The vast majority of Americans support IVF, abortion access, but Republicans keep blocking both I started my family more than two decades ago via in vitro fertilization, or IVF, and I’ve watched with growing alarm as the U.S.
Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned federal abortion rights two years ago, has also endangered access to this common fertility technique.
Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, spoke with me recently about the threat and the Biden administration’s response.
The risk to IVF became clear this year when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 16 that frozen embryos should be considered “children.” Almost all IVF providers in the state immediately halted services, fearful of liability.
