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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan anyone say for certain what happens to frozen embryos in states banning abortions?
mucifer
(23,545 posts)Walleye
(31,027 posts)I have been curious about this since the beginning of their stupid movement. They are probably hastily writing laws to correct the laws theyve already hastily written
Captain Zero
(6,806 posts)Susan Collins should really be concerned about this.
Hekate
(90,704 posts)
may need to go out of state.
The prospects are pretty awful when a fertilized egg is legally a year old baby.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)And Ill just leave it at that.
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)My understanding is that with IVF sometimes the woman ends up with 3 or 4 or more implanted eggs and that it is common in that circumstance to abort the excess eggs so that the remaining egg has a better chance of survival.
What then?
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)There is no general answer to this question.
But absent an IVF exception, the procedure becomes illegal.
Freddie
(9,267 posts)She got pregnant with triplets via IVF. She was told she could have healthy twins, or sickly/dead triplets and die herself in the process. She had a reduction, and healthy twins, now 18. Nowadays, realizing that even twin pregnancies are far more problematic than singles, IVF procedures generally do not use multiple embryos anymore.
Of course the pro-life crowd would have preferred my friend to have dead triplets.
Archae
(46,328 posts)He paraded what were called "snowflake babies" (children from frozen embryos) at a news conference but that "movement" went nowhere.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)First off, the state laws are all different.
However, in the most general case, the thing that is the offense is performing an abortion on a patient. So, merely keeping, or discarding IVF cells is not an abortion.
It would be preferable to identify a particular state, though.
rampartc
(5,407 posts)suing her for the "right to live."
https://www.lawfuel.com/blog/the-sofia-vergara-frozen-embryo-case/