A new wave of bills in Kansas, Arkansas and West Virginia could uproot people's lives as as they struggle with infertility.
Lauren Wranosky, research associate at Pregnancy Justice, says the wave of new statehouse bills is cause for more concern than ever. Kansas’ bill is particularly worrisome as it would be “the first in the country to create a new, unique crime for destroying a fertilized embryo.” Arkansas’ bill would effectively “remove language that protects IVF in the state’s Constitutionould severely limit its availability by allowing only licensed physicians to offer it.
This phrasing keeps the door open for criminalization, and “all it would take is an over-zealous prosecutor,” she says,sharp increase in pregnancy-related criminal chargesCollura says that among people she’s worked with or spoken to about infertility struggles, she’s concerned that many still “see abortion bans and threats to fertility technology as separate issues.” P
olicies that appear unrelated to abortion bans have long targeted pregnant people—and fertility technology. Think:
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