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A growing number of progressive politicians are choosing to tell their own abortion stories. The list includes newly elected Alabama State House member Marilyn Lands, who won a special election by focusing on reproductive rights.
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When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republicans insisted the ruling would mostly impact those seeking abortions to end unwanted pregnancies. But that hasn't been the case. Women who never intended to end their pregnancies have nearly died because they couldn't get emergency treatment. Miscarriage care has been delayed. Routine reproductive medical care has dried up in states with strict abortion bans. And fertility treatments were temporarily paused in Alabama. As the fallout grows, so apparently does the opportunity for Democrats.
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Former President Donald Trump said he believes abortion limits should be left to the states, outlining his position in a video in which he declined to endorse a national ban after months of mixed messages and speculation. Here in Alabama, its abortion law makes performing the procedure a felony with up to ninety nine years in prison for the provider. There’s an exception when there is a serious health risk to the mother.
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Alabama lawmakers, who face public pressure to get invitro fertilization services restarted, are nearing approval of immunity legislation to shield providers from the fall out of a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children.
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Groups representing Alabama doctors and hospitals urged the state Supreme Court on Friday to revisit a decision equating frozen embryos to children, saying the ruling is blocking fertility treatments and harming the medical community.
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This Associated Press analysis focuses on Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are “children,” and how this and other legal decision are creating heightened focus on upcoming races for these judges nationally.
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Alabama lawmakers rushed to protect in vitro fertilization services after fertility clinics shut down in the wake of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are children under the state wrongful death law. Critics on the Democratic side say the bills failed to address the main controversy.
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The Alabama Republican party is still doing damage control following a controversial ruling by the State’s Supreme Court. The justices declared that fertilized embryos are children. That generated a media frenzy that left GOP lawmakers struggling with what to say next. The Republicans are already dealing with the fallout from the end of the Roe Versus Wade decision that legalized abortion. The ruling has politicians picking their words carefully…
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The fallout continues over the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are “children.” Demonstrators took to the picket line to protest the ruling and its impact on parents seeking to have children through invitro fertilization.
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Tomorrow, APR news director Pat Duggins looks at the political messaging tangle created by the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are “children.” Then, there’s where the ruling “hits home.”