Gladwyn d’Souza

Aside from the most obvious effect of fetal personhood laws—banning abortion—and the recent court ruling making IVF unworkable in Alabama, these laws also assist prosecutors in criminalizing women for their conduct while pregnant. At its most expansive, fetal personhood applies all of the states’ laws to embryos and fetuses, including child welfare statutes.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/keeptrack/p/fetal-personhood-laws-are-about-more?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Fetal personhood laws are about more than abortion: Republicans block bill to protect IVF nationwide

This month’s Alabama court ruling that IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) embryos are “children” covered by wrongful death lawsuits has Republicans scrambling to distance themselves from the fallout. According to the party’s own polling, 85% of Americans support increasing access to fertility-related procedures and services. The high level of support remains consistent among the GOP’s most dedicated voters: 78% of abortion opponents and 83% of evangelicals support IVF specifically.

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Feb 29, 2024 at 3:46pmWeb
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Keep Track on Substack- (Alabama Chief Justice) Parker is close friends with former Alabama chief justice and disgraced U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore. While running for a judicial seat on the court in the mid-2000s, Parker attended a party in honor of Confederate general and KKK grand wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest, handed out confederate flags at the funeral of a Confederate widow, and was photographed alongside leaders of the hate groups League of the South and Council of Conservative Citizens. And if that wasn’t enough, in a recent interview with QAnon conspiracy theorist Johnny Enlow, Parker “indicated that he is a proponent of the ‘Seven Mountain Mandate,’ a theological approach that calls on Christians to impose fundamentalist values on all aspects of American life.”

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