Posted on 02/23/2024 10:31:04 AM PST by Miami Rebel
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the GOP’s official body tasked with aiding Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, is urging them to “clearly and concisely” reject restrictions on in vitro fertilization (IVF).
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last Friday that frozen embryos qualify as children and are therefore protected by state law.
“The text of the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act is sweeping and unqualified,” argued Justice Jay Mitchell in the majority opinion. “It applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation. It is not the role of this Court to craft a new limitation based on our own view of what is or is not wise public policy.”
It is possible that the ruling could put an end to — or severely limit — IVF services in the state.
In a memo to GOP Senate campaigns, NRSC executive director Jason Thielman wrote that “a recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court is fodder for Democrats hoping to manipulate the abortion issue for electoral gain. There are zero Republican Senate candidates who support efforts to restrict access to fertility treatments. NRSC encourages Republican Senate candidates to clearly and concisely reject efforts to restrict IVF.”
NEW: In response to AL Supreme Court IVF ruling, a Feb 23 NRSC memo “encourages Republican Senate candidates to clearly and concisely reject efforts by the government to restrict IVF.” pic.twitter.com/GKxM1ebpLl
— Audrey Fahlberg (@AudreyFahlberg) February 23, 2024
“When responding to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling, it is imperative that our candidates align with the public’s overwhelming support for IVF and fertility treatments,” continued Thielman. “By advocating for increased access to these services, opposing restrictions, and emphasizing the importance of supporting families in their journey to conceive, our candidates can demonstrate compassion, respect for family values, and a commitment to individual freedom.”
The memo also included the results of a poll conducted by Kellyanne Conway, which found that 85% of respondents support policies that increase “access to fertility-related procedures and services.”
How about the GOP deosn't have a national policy on this issue at all?
Imagine a world where a corrupt oligarch could bribe a doctor to implant clones of himself for future organ harvesting. The Uber rich of the world are obsessed with life extension technologies, practices and diabolical transhumanism . The perverted reptiles that rule us would have no qualms about doing this to benefit themselves. They must be crushed.
Stop playing around with babies 👶🏻
Too many Republican politicians now think no different than the Democrat Party of Death and Leftism on this and other issues. They deliberately or ignorantly ignore the fact that abortion and IVF is murder and then mouth the Democrat kabuki of a "sensible and compassionate" response. All to get votes from the air-headed and emotion driven suburban mom crowd.
As I said in another thread in this topic, when we speak of human zygotes, embryos, fetuses, babies, children, teenagers, adults, middle-aged, and old age, these are are simply descriptions of the various stages of human development. Some occur on one side of the birth canal, others on the other side. Some may be imperfect or unwanted by their parents or by society. But all are living human beings. All have an equal human dignity. None should unjustly be deprived of life.
Don't like the law in Alabama? Move to California and abort yourself into oblivion. And the dolts in the US Senate need to keep their fat pie-holes shut. This is a state issue, period.
If you think that the Dobbs decision federalized, or rather defederalized voters’ interest in abortion, fertility, and birth control, you’ve got another think coming.
California and Alabama are off the electoral table, so how they handle this has to electoral impact.
The question is to what extent this issue affects the pivotal demographic of white suburban women in swing states. If there was any expectation that Dobbs has faded as an anti-GOP sledgehammer the Alabama decision has quashed it.
Tens of thousands of babies are born annually through IVF in this country. For a lot of women (and men) this is not an abstruse matter like the estate tax exclusion but a very personal and emotional one.
...Occurring in the ramp up to nationwide elections where suburban wine moms are going to be the difference in a lot of close races. Almost all of those women, even pro-life ones, are going to react harsly negatively to the idea of limiting fertility treatments. They are going to have friends who struggled with fertility, and they are going to be easily swayed by any hint that this is coming to their state if they vote for an R candidate.
Over and over again, election after election, these self-inflicted overreaches are made, and then immediately exploited by the left. It's almost like it's a deliberate sabotage operation.
I think there is a good case to make an abstract argument about fertility treatments being careless with human life, I think there is a case to be made that IVF shouldnt be a legal medical treatment because it is using technology to override the will of nature. I don't agree with those things, but I'd think it should be something people can debate. I don't, however, think it is any court's job to create new interpretations of laws to either force that debate, or unilaterally extend the definition of words to decide things for the rest of the population.
Yea, shod be a winning campaign slogan, Just say no to IVF. The Rats will have a 65 seat majority then thry can kill children nationwide on demand and those thatsurvive can be sold off for sex. This is not an issue you debate on the campaign trail. You will lose and you’ll take the whole country down with you. When your grand children get sold into sex slavery you get to say, at least we made the argument about IVF
Agreed, 100%.
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