Within a few minutes the leak draft comments from the US Supreme Court calling for an overturn Roe v. WadeElizabeth Constance, a reproductive endocrinologist at Heartland Reproductive Medicine Center in Omaha, Nebraska, has been inundated with social media messages from concerned patients. They asked her what this meant for the embryos that I had frozen. What does it mean for the egg retrieval I planned? “Our patient is really scared,” says Constance.
Candlestick Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that ruled that abortion rights in the United States were protected by the Constitution, were reversed, the consequences would be swift and they would be devastating. And the fact of a post-Roe The world probably won’t stop at abortion bans. Legal experts and biological nutritionists warn that many frontiers of reproductive health are at stake.
Sean Tipton, advocacy, policy and development director for the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, said the most immediate concern is that so many states are using language in their laws to give legal status. and donor for fertilized eggs. Roe overturned. At this time, 13 states In the United States there is a “trigger” law that prohibits all or nearly all immediate or very rapid abortions if Roe According to the Guttmacher Institute, a group that researches and advocates for abortion rights has been overturned. In many of these laws, life is defined as beginning at the moment of fertilization, although the exact language varies between states.
Under this definition, any procedure involving the destruction of a fertilized egg is potentially prohibited if Roe v. Wade overturned – a fertilized egg would theoretically have the same rights as a preschool child. This is the expression of Movement “humanity”, bred by friendly creatures, which seek to identify the fertilized egg, zygote, embryo and fetus as being equally protected by law. It’s a clear and present danger to all forms of reproductive health care, says Tipton.
Such terminology not only prohibits abortion, but can also jeopardize access to some forms of birth control, such as an IUD, as well as emergency contraception such as Plan B. This is because these forms of contraception are considered by some anti-abortion advocates to be an abortifacient — an abortifacient — when explaining life begins at fertilization. (This is even though IUDs and emergency contraceptive pills are mostly Contraception by preventing an egg from being fertilized or released from being released, rather than interacting with an egg after fertilization.) It can also reduce access to assisted reproductive therapy, specifically IVF.
RoeSeema Mohapatra, a law professor specializing in reproductive justice and health law at Southern Methodist University in Texas, warns the fallout could be an opportunity seized by pro-life politicians to push the restrictions further. “Whichever state is at the forefront of anti-abortion legislation, we can expect these kinds of ancillary laws to pass,” she said. That includes many major states in the Midwest and the South. “Even if they are so far inactive, this will really empower states — and, cynically, politicians wanting to draw attention — to focus on these issues. “.
