Roe v Wade: ‘Could abortion bans put my IVF at risk?’

Aug 9, 2023
By Lebo Diseko, Global Religion Correspondent

One year after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade - a landmark ruling on abortion rights - some IVF patients are worried that potential new laws could jeopardise their fertility treatment. Some women are even considering moving their frozen embryos across state lines.

Julie Eshelman has had a long and difficult journey trying to build her family. "My husband and I were married in 2015," she tells me. "We naively decided that we wanted to wait a year before we started having kids. In 2016, we started trying and after six months, I was like: 'This isn't working, maybe there's something wrong.'"

Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66438294

09.08.2023

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USA – ‘This is our new normal’: Fertility treatment advocates are gearing up to fight abortion bans and personhood laws

RESOLVE, a major advocacy group, is launching a new campaign to bring fertility patients’ and doctors’ stories directly to lawmakers — and the public — in 2023.

Grace Panetta, Political reporter
November 14, 2022

Anti-abortion politicians and ballot initiatives lost big at the ballot box in the 2022 midterms. But fertility treatment advocates and patients are gearing up to fight against the next wave of anti-abortion legislation and restrictions on reproductive health.

RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association is gearing up for 2023 state legislative sessions with a new initiative, Fight for Families, to expand its lobbying and advocacy against strict abortion bans and proposed personhood laws that could threaten access to fertility treatments including in vitro fertilization, or IVF.

Continued: https://19thnews.org/2022/11/resolve-infertility-advocates-abortion-bans-laws/

14.11.2022

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The Ramifications of Roe v. Wade’s Fall Won’t Stop at Abortion Bans

In certain states, politicians could leap on the opportunity to push for the criminalization of certain methods of birth control and to impair access to IVF.

Grace Browne, Wired
May 9, 2022

WITHIN MINUTES OF the leaking of the draft opinion from the US Supreme Court calling for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Elizabeth Constance, a reproductive endocrinologist at the Heartland Center for Reproductive Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, was inundated with messages on social media from concerned patients. What does this mean for the embryos I have frozen, they asked her. What does it mean for the egg retrieval I have planned? “Our patients are really afraid,” says Constance.

Continued: https://www.wired.com/story/ramifications-of-post-roe-world/

India: 10 year-old rape victim denied an abortion by court after becoming pregnant

India: 10 year-old rape victim denied an abortion by court after becoming pregnant

'There are risks and abortion at this stage is tough, but for the girl who is still developing, the scars will be many' says a Delhi-based gynaecologist

Derek Hawkins, Washington Post
July 21, 2017

A court in India on Tuesday ordered a 10-year-old girl whose parents say she was raped and impregnated by her uncle to carry her foetus to term, ruling she is too young and her pregnancy too advanced to have an abortion.

The girl, who has not been identified, is six months pregnant and sought medical attention after her maternal uncle allegedly raped her several times, CBS News reported.

Continued at source: The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/india-latest-news-rape-victim-girl-10-year-old-abortion-denied-pregnant-rapist-sexual-assault-a7853426.html

21.07.2017