{"id":269089,"date":"2022-05-31T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=269089"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T13:23:14","slug":"could-overturning-roe-affect-fertility-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/could-overturning-roe-affect-fertility-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Could overturning Roe affect the fertility industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> is overturned, some argue that the decision could <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/24\/embryo-dumping-fertility-industry-is-panicked-over-the-potential-overturn-of-roe-v-wade\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">impact the fertility industry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Pro-abortion advocates are especially worried about what this could mean for in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Currently, IVF \u2014 and the fertility industry as a whole \u2014 has few regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Roe is reversed, abortion advocates argue that the door will be open to laws establishing the personhood of preborn children, which are already in place in some states. As the rapid progress of the medical field has shown that deciding personhood based on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/three-reasons-viability-rule-abortion-unsound\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">viability<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is entirely arbitrary, they fear that the embryos created and sometimes discarded during IVF could be legally considered persons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IVF involves removing several eggs from the ovaries, fertilizing them in a lab, and inserting one (or multiple) screened, selected embryos into the uterus. It often takes several rounds for an embryo to successfully implant, and the IVF failure rate is very high. As a previous Live Action News report <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-couples-opt-adoption-ivf\/\">noted<\/a>, &#8220;Each round of IVF only carries a 20-30% chance of successful birth and couples can create up to 20 embryos to increase their odds \u2014 but most couples don\u2019t want 20 children. As a result, while an estimated one million valuable and worthy people have been born thanks to IVF, <em>1.7 million have died<\/em>, and another one million are said to be currently frozen in the United States while their parents decide if they still want them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ivf-selective-reduction-creating-babies-kill\/\">Creating babies to kill: The union of IVF and \u2018selective reduction\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During this treatment, many embryos are created which are never given a chance to live. These \u201cextra\u201d embryos are frozen, destroyed, or used for research. Some couples also choose to donate them to other couples who cannot conceive. Sometimes multiple embryos are inserted back into the uterus. If more than one implants and begin to grow, the doctors may <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ivf-selective-reduction-creating-babies-kill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cselectively reduce\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0or abort certain children in an attempt to create a pregnancy of lesser risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Katie Breckenridge <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/24\/embryo-dumping-fertility-industry-is-panicked-over-the-potential-overturn-of-roe-v-wade\/\">writes<\/a> for The Federalist:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Not only is there concern that clinics could be in violation of state law if they discard chromosomally abnormal embryos, but they will no longer be allowed to \u201cselectively reduce\u201d any \u201cextra\u201d children who may implant. Translation: pre-born IVF children are designer and disposable commodities, both in the lab and in the womb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This means overturning Roe could finally end the routine discarding, freezing, and terminating of lab-created life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some states are broadening their abortion laws and they could apply to IVF. For example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/25\/us\/oklahoma-abortion-ban-law-governor.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> just passed a bill protecting preborn children from the moment of fertilization. Technically, this could include eggs fertilized through IVF. This bill could be interpreted as banning the destruction of \u201cextra\u201d embryos created in the process. There are currently many unknowns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IVF process raises many ethical questions and concerns, not just for the pro-life movement but also for the doctors who perform this treatment. The fertility industry is viewed by many as r<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ecklessly creating and discarding life; calls for greater regulation of IVF are growing louder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Roe v. Wade is overturned, some argue that the decision could impact the fertility industry. Pro-abortion advocates are especially worried about what this could mean for in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Currently, IVF \u2014 and the fertility industry as a whole \u2014 has few regulations. 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