At least two Texas county-level Republican Party organizations have passed a resolution to ban or regulate in vitro fertilization, according to local party...
IVF was thrown into the spotlight this year after an Alabama court ruled embryos are akin to children.
It’s part of a small effort to push the issue into the front row of the fight over abortion and reproductive rights after the Supreme Court struck downThe resolutions will be considered by committees at the state GOP convention in May for possible adoption into the Texas Republican Party platform. While the party platform is nonbinding on GOP officials, it can influence legislation.
In response, Alabama’s Republican governor signed into law a bill that protects IVF patients and providers from legal liability, although the law does not address the issue of when an embryo or fetus is considered a person. Matt Mackowiak, chairman of the Travis County Republican Party and a political consultant, said that while there are some “reasonable moral questions” about how facilities handle unused embryos, he thinks trying to ban IVF would make the party seem “radical.”
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