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The Alabama Supreme Court stunned the nation earlier this week by ruling that frozen embryos are children under state law. The decision has vast implications not only for abortion rights in Alabama, but also for treatments like in vitro fertilization, or IVF, which help couples struggling with infertility to conceive children. Some fertility clinics in Alabama have already paused the service while they analyze the full implications of the ruling.
3 Fertility clinics have since paused all procedures in the wake of the ruling.
On Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley told NBC News that she supported the Alabama ruling, stating, “Embryos, to me, are babies.” But just a few hours later, Haley seemed to walk back her comment on CNN, saying, “I didn’t say that I agreed with the Alabama ruling.” She added, however, that she still believes “an embryo is an unborn baby.”
And on Thursday, Haley again tried to clean up her answer, saying that the court decision may have been right but that there needed to be a new law: “I think that the court was doing it based on the law, and I think Alabama needs to go back and look at the law.”
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Thursday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., replied, “Yeah, I was all for it,” when asked what he thought of the decision finding that embryos are children.
But he also seemed unclear on what the decision was.
“You know, you just got to look at everything going on in the country. It’s just an attack on families stacked on kids,” he told NBC News.
“We need more kids,” he added. “We need people to have an opportunity to have kids.”
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott evaded a question Thursday about Alabama’s ruling, saying, “Well, I haven’t studied the issue.”
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3 Fertility clinics have since paused all procedures in the wake of the ruling.
On Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley told NBC News that she supported the Alabama ruling, stating, “Embryos, to me, are babies.” But just a few hours later, Haley seemed to walk back her comment on CNN, saying, “I didn’t say that I agreed with the Alabama ruling.” She added, however, that she still believes “an embryo is an unborn baby.”
And on Thursday, Haley again tried to clean up her answer, saying that the court decision may have been right but that there needed to be a new law: “I think that the court was doing it based on the law, and I think Alabama needs to go back and look at the law.”
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Thursday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., replied, “Yeah, I was all for it,” when asked what he thought of the decision finding that embryos are children.
But he also seemed unclear on what the decision was.
“You know, you just got to look at everything going on in the country. It’s just an attack on families stacked on kids,” he told NBC News.
“We need more kids,” he added. “We need people to have an opportunity to have kids.”
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott evaded a question Thursday about Alabama’s ruling, saying, “Well, I haven’t studied the issue.”
Alabama's IVF ruling puts Republicans in a political bind
The recent Alabama Supreme Court decision found that embryos are children, causing Republican politicians to scramble to figure out where they stand on the matter.
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