Kimala Price is a professor and chair of women’s studies at SDSU whose work focuses on reproductive health policy and politics, the reproductive justice movement and the work of women of color in the movement, and the intersections between reproductive justice and queer and transgender...
The level of confusion and concern triggered by the Alabama state supreme court’s ruling last month that embryos created through in vitro fertilization are considered children is just the latest in a long line of concerns that have been raised over efforts to curb or eliminate reproductive rights. It also hasn’t come as a surprise to reproductive justice and rights advocates. “Women of color have been warning folks about this for decades. We said Roe v.
The question is, what happens to those embryos? Once you go through the cycle, the pregnancy takes, what happens to those embryos in terms of them being disposed? Do you get charged? Is the person or the people who those embryos belong to charged? Are the providers who are handling the situation charged? How do you protect providers in those situations? How do you protect the people who are considering using these services to create families? You’re talking about people who are already...
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