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☆ Biden Should Campaign on Making Americans Live Longer Again - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Ashwin Vasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The U.S. government’s strategic response to attack this cruel disease abroad was PEPFAR, an American initiative that has saved more than 25 million lives and shaped my understanding of what muscular public health policy could accomplish. Today, as New York City’s health commissioner and a practicing doctor, I see a desperate need for similar focus and ambition here in the United States. Because of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease — along with drug overdoses, suicide, violence — the United States has not. When developing countries needed H.I.V. When the world needed a Covid-19 vaccine, we combined government-funded research with private initiative and an enormous distribution campaign.

Persons: Biden, Covid Locations: U.S, American, New York, United States, America

☆ Choosing to Skip Sex and Go Straight to I.V.F.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In February, in vitro fertilization, or I.V.F., was thrown into the spotlight when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos in the state should be considered children. The decision led to a pause on I.V.F. procedures in parts of the state, and even a pause on shipping embryos out of state, to avoid potential criminal liability. At least 12 million babies have been born globally using I.V.F. Dr. Alan Copperman, the chief executive of RMA of New York, a fertility center, is one of many doctors seeing more couples, who are well aware of the challenges of conceiving and carrying a healthy baby to full term, skip sex and go straight to I.V.F.

Persons: Couples, Alan Copperman Organizations: Alabama, National Committee, Technologies, American College of Obstetricians Locations: United States, New York

☆ Opinion | How America’s Two Abortion Realities Are Clashing
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +65 min

mary zieglerWell, I think it’s much easier to ban abortion than it is to enforce a criminal law against abortion. mary zieglerNo, I think that’s right. If our abortion politics don’t reflect our abortion views, what does that tell us about the health of the democracy? We’ve seen upwards of 10 states — I think it’s 14 or 15 that have changed their definition of abortion in abortion restrictive states since Dobbs. So, the idea is that abortions that are presented as life saving either are not abortions or are simply pretexts for abortion that’s elective.

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Credit Credit... The focus was a sign of how political the president’s address had been — and how central Mr. Trump is to Mr. Biden’s own political future. Video transcript Back bars 0:00 / 0:56 - 0:00 transcript In its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court majority wrote the following. Image Mr. Biden spoke at times in what seemed a near-shout during his State of the Union address. The morning of the State of Union began with an ad from Mr. Trump’s super PAC questioning if Mr. Biden would live to 2029.

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☆ Alabama Bill to Protect I.V.F. Will Reopen Clinics but Curb Patient Rights
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Jan Hoffman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Alabama legislature on Wednesday is expected to pass legislation that will make it possible for fertility clinics in the state to reopen without the specter of crippling lawsuits. But the measure, hastily written and expected to pass by a huge bipartisan margin, does not address the legal question that led to clinic closings and set off a stormy, politically fraught national debate: Whether embryos that have been frozen and stored for possible future implantation have the legal status of human beings. The Alabama Supreme Court made such a finding last month, in the context of a claim against a Mobile clinic brought by three couples whose frozen embryos were inadvertently destroyed. The court ruled that, under Alabama law, those embryos should be regarded as people, and that the couples were entitled to punitive damages for the wrongful death of a child. Legal experts said the bill, which Governor Kay Ivey has signaled she will sign, would be the first in the country to create a legal moat around embryos, blocking lawsuits or prosecutions if they are damaged or destroyed.

Persons: Kay Ivey Organizations: Alabama Supreme Locations: Alabama

☆ Alabama Passes Law to Protect I.V.F. Treatments
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Emily Cochrane | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation to shield in vitro fertilization providers from civil and criminal liability, capping off their scramble to allow the fertility treatment after a State Supreme Court ruling found that frozen embryos should be considered children. Kay Ivey, a Republican, swiftly signed the bill into law, but it was unclear whether the protections would be enough for the state’s major fertility clinics to restart treatments. Doctors at one clinic said they were ready to begin again as early as the end of the week, while another clinic said it was not assured about the scope of protections and would wait for “legal clarification.”Lawmakers and legal experts acknowledged that the law did not address existential questions raised by the court about the definition of personhood, leaving open the prospect of legal challenges in the future.

Persons: Kay Ivey Organizations: Gov, Republican

☆ Why ‘Fetal Personhood’ Is Roiling the Right
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The procedure offers a chance to make a baby, with eggs that are fertilized and develop into embryos in a lab. came to a sudden halt because of a State Supreme Court ruling that achieved a central goal of the anti-abortion movement. The ruling vaulted the question of “fetal personhood” to the center of the debate that has followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Alabama court decision made clear that this stance on the definition of life can broadly rewrite reproductive rights and send states, and perhaps the country, down unpredictable paths. In response, Alabama legislators, led by Republicans who have opposed abortion, rushed to pass bills last week so that I.V.F.

Persons: Roe, Wade Organizations: Court, Republicans Locations: Alabama, U.S .

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Republican Party declared victory. But the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision last month that frozen embryos are considered “extrauterine children,” which prompted hospitals to suspend I.V.F. Given Americans’ overwhelming support for in vitro fertilization, conservative politicians have tried to distance themselves from the ruling. Plus, listeners weigh in on how much the economy is going to affect their vote. (A full transcript of this audio essay will be available within 24 hours of publication in the audio player above.)

Persons: Roe, Wade Organizations: Spotify, Republican Party Locations: Alabama

☆ Alabama Lawmakers Advance Bills in a Race to Protect I.V.F.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Emily Cochrane | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Alabama lawmakers overwhelmingly advanced legislation on Thursday that would shield doctors, clinics and hospitals offering in vitro fertilization treatment, clearing a major hurdle in their race to enshrine protections for reproductive medicine into law. The scramble comes after a State Supreme Court ruling this month found that, under Alabama law, frozen embryos should be considered children, upending I.V.F. treatment across the state and leading multiple clinics to stop offering the treatments to avoid possible liability. The Senate unanimously passed its version of the measure, while the House approved its bill on a 94-to-6 margin, with a few lawmakers abstaining. The quick pace of the legislation underscores how most Republicans in Alabama are anxious to show their constituents that they are not standing in the way of the many families who turn to I.V.F.

Persons: upending, Kay Ivey Organizations: Court, Gov, Republican Locations: Alabama

☆ The I.V.F. Ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court Should Not Be a Surprise - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Linda Greenhouse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I never thought I’d be grateful to the Alabama Supreme Court for anything, but now I am. With its decision deeming frozen embryos to be children under state law, that all-Republican court has done the impossible. It has awakened the American public, finally, to the peril of the theocratic future toward which the country has been hurtling. The fact that religious doctrine lay at the heart of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was perfectly clear, as I observed then. But there’s no avoiding the theological basis of the Alabama court’s solicitude for “extrauterine children,” to use the majority opinion’s phrase.

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☆ Senate Republicans Look Poised to Block Bill to Protect I.V.F. Treatment
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Kayla Guo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senate Republicans on Wednesday appeared ready to block a bill that would establish federal protections for in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments in the wake of a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos should be considered children. Democrats orchestrated the action as they sought to highlight the hypocrisy of Republicans who have rushed to voice support for I.V.F. after the Alabama ruling, even though many of them have sponsored legislation that declares that life begins at the moment of fertilization. “If this is urgent and you care deeply about this as you say you do — like you’ve been saying in the last 72-plus hours since the Alabama Supreme Court ruling — then don’t object. Let this bill pass.” She argued that the bill’s protections were all the more essential since the decision by Alabama’s Republican-majority court.

Persons: Tammy Duckworth, ” Ms, Duckworth, you’ve, —, ” Organizations: Wednesday, Alabama Supreme, Republican, Alabama’s Republican Locations: Illinois, Alabama

☆ A Fading Weapon in the H.I.V. Fight: Condoms
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Benjamin Ryan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The worrisome trend points to an urgent need for better prevention strategies as the nation struggles to beat the H.I.V. Over the past decade, prevention medication known as PrEP has helped fuel a moderate drop in H.I.V. as well as other sexually transmitted infections, has been declining across the board in recent years, not just among gay men, contributing to a rise in sexually transmitted infections. Researchers said that, with so much focus on PrEP, public health officials have overlooked condoms, contributing to the drop-off in their use. “The goal of promoting PrEP is a valuable one, but it has overshadowed other prevention strategies like condoms,” said Steven Goodreau, an H.I.V.

Persons: Gay, ”, Steven Goodreau Organizations: University of Washington, Centers for Disease Control

☆ Opinion | Trump Gave Evangelicals Dobbs. They Don’t Seem Satisfied.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When asked for his thoughts, Senator Tommy Tuberville, one of the state’s two Republican senators, struggled to give a coherent answer. “People need to have — we need more kids, we need the people to have the opportunity to have kids,” he went on. When asked about the Alabama court’s decision last Wednesday, she said that she believed that “an embryo is considered an unborn baby,” affirming the court’s conclusion. When asked again the next day, however, Haley said that she disagreed with the ruling. “I think that the court was doing it based on the law, and I think Alabama needs to go back and look at the law,” she said.

Persons: ”, Tommy Tuberville, Nikki Haley, Haley, Greg Abbott, “ I’m Organizations: Republicans, Alabama Supreme, South, Republican, Alabama, CNN Locations: Alabama, South Carolina, U.N, Texas

☆ I.V.F. Made Me a Mom. Why Has This Issue Tripped Up Republicans? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Kristen Soltis Anderson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The grief of infertility can be all-consuming, but also hard to fully grasp for anyone who has blessedly never experienced it. It is an unusual grief, a grief about lives not yet begun rather than lives that have come to an end. I am also of the mind that science is one way that miracles are made possible in this world. To the extent that Alabama’s laws have now been interpreted in such a way that I.V.F. is at least temporarily unavailable, I am hopeful that policymakers in the state will take rapid action to put policies in place to protect it.

Locations: Alabama

☆ The Costs for I.V.F. Patients After Alabama’s Ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Ron Lieber | Tara Siegel Bernard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the wake of the decision, doctors and patients have worried that they could be vulnerable to prosecution in any number of medical scenarios that were once routine. Some Alabama facilities have halted or restricted treatment, and patients elsewhere worry that similar rulings or laws may soon come to their states. And because so many people pay so much for health care, the fallout from the Alabama case raises big financial questions, too. What would it cost to move embryos to a state less likely to issue a similar ruling? Cryoport Systems, IVF Cryo and ReproTech are three shipping companies that specialize in transporting embryos, though there are others.

Organizations: Alabama Supreme Locations: Alabama

☆ Explosive Detonates Outside Alabama Attorney General’s Office
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | More About Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

An explosive device was detonated early Saturday outside the Alabama attorney general’s office in downtown Montgomery, Steve Marshall, the attorney general, said in a statement on Monday. The explosion, which Mr. Marshall said had not injured anyone, was set off one day after he announced that he did not plan to prosecute I.V.F. providers or families seeking treatment after a recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally considered children. The statement did not say whether the explosion had caused any damage, whether the motive for the act was known or whether there were any suspects. “The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency will be leading the investigation, and we are urging anyone with information to contact them immediately,” Mr. Marshall said in the statement.

Persons: Steve Marshall, Marshall, “, ” Mr Organizations: Agency Locations: Alabama, Montgomery

Mr. Abbott tried to cast I.V.F., which has been available for more than 40 years, as a novel subject confronting legislators. “need to worry.”After the Alabama ruling rocked presidential and congressional campaigns over the past week, Mr. Trump said on Friday that he supported I.V.F. “And so this Alabama Supreme Court ruling is a natural extension of that.”Gov. Many Republicans have struggled to oppose the result of the Alabama ruling while supporting the principle it is based on. Nikki Haley did so on Wednesday, saying it was important to let doctors and patients navigate the I.V.F.

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☆ What Christian Traditions Say About I.V.F. Treatments
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Elizabeth Dias | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God,” the court’s chief justice, Tom Parker, wrote in his decision. Among conservative Christians, the belief that life begins at conception has been a driving force behind anti-abortion policies for years. Among the most ardent abortion opponents, that thinking has also led to uncompromising opposition to in vitro fertilization. “That is the fundamental premise of our entire movement,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, which opposes abortion. I.V.F., she said, “is literally a business model built on disposable children and treating children as commodities.”

Persons: Tom Parker, ”, Kristan Hawkins, “ Organizations: Alabama, Life

☆ Alabama Lawmakers Move to Protect I.V.F. Treatments
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Eduardo Medina | Emily Cochrane | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Alabama lawmakers are considering legislation that would protect in vitro fertilization, after a State Supreme Court ruling last week led some clinics to halt I.V.F. But its wording — paired with a fiery opinion from the chief justice encouraging lawmakers to push its scope further — has left many wondering about the possible wider implications for people seeking I.V.F. At least three major fertility clinics in Alabama have halted I.V.F. treatments this week as doctors and lawyers assess the possible consequences of the ruling. On Friday, a major embryo shipping company said that it also was “pausing” its business in Alabama.

Locations: Alabama

☆ Opinion | Alabama’s Ruling That Frozen Embryos Are Children
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Regarding the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children (news articles, Feb. 20-23):I considered this dilemma more than 40 years ago when I was trying to get pregnant. What about all those embryos that would be thrown away or frozen forever? In my mind, they became angels, every one of them helping the one embryo that would become life. I did not become pregnant with I.V.F., but my stance toward abortion changed radically and permanently. If I could sacrifice those little “angel” embryos in my hope for a new life, who was I to tell a 14-year-old girl (or anyone) that she could not sacrifice her embryos in the hopes for her own life?

Organizations: Alabama, Catholic

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling, that frozen embryos should be considered children, has created a new political nightmare for Republicans nationally, who distanced themselves from a fringe view about reproductive health that threatened to drive away voters in November. Several Republican governors and lawmakers swiftly disavowed the decision, made by a Republican-majority court, expressing support for in vitro fertilization treatments. Others declared they would not support federal restrictions on I.V.F., drawing a distinction between their support for broadly popular fertility treatments and their opposition to abortion. “The concern for years has been that I.V.F. would be taken away from women everywhere,” Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, said in an interview on Thursday.

Persons: Nancy Mace Organizations: Alabama Supreme, Republican Locations: Alabama, South Carolina, I.V.F

☆ For Women Undergoing I.V.F. In Alabama, What Now?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Natalie Brumfield, 41, cried as she read about the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that embryos in test tubes should be considered children. But on Wednesday, she learned that her clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system was halting I.V.F. “I don’t know what this means now,” Ms. Capilouto said on Wednesday, minutes after learning that her dream of having a child would be indefinitely suspended. Questions like hers are echoing across the country after the court’s ruling, which was handed down Feb. 16. The potential national implications remain unclear, but many women in Alabama are wondering how this new classification for embryos — one rooted in a religious belief — will affect their own journeys toward motherhood, a process that for many who seek I.V.F.

Persons: Natalie Brumfield, Brumfield, Emily Capilouto, Ms, Capilouto Organizations: Alabama, University of Alabama Locations: Birmingham, Alabama

☆ After Ruling, University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System Pauses I.V.F. Procedures
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Anna Betts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system announced on Wednesday that it was pausing in vitro fertilization treatments as it evaluated the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children. “We are saddened that this will impact our patients’ attempt to have a baby through I.V.F.,” a statement from the health system said, “but we must evaluate the potential that our patients and our physicians could be prosecuted criminally or face punitive damages for following the standard of care for I.V.F. treatments.”The health system’s Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility will continue performing egg retrievals from women seeking fertility treatment, the statement said, but it will not undertake the next steps in the process — combining the eggs with sperm in a lab for fertilization, and allowing embryos to develop — for now. “Everything through egg retrieval remains in place,” the statement said. “Egg fertilization and embryo development is paused.”

Persons: ” Organizations: University of Alabama, Reproductive Locations: Birmingham, Alabama, I.V.F

☆ Alabama Hospital Paused I.V.F. Treatments After Court Ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system, which includes the state’s largest hospital, announced today that it would pause in vitro fertilization treatments after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos in test tubes should be considered children. While it evaluates the legal ramifications, the health system said that it would continue performing egg retrievals from women seeking fertility treatment, but that it would not undertake the next steps in the process: combining the eggs with sperm in a lab for fertilization. The State Supreme Court ruled on Friday that an 1872 statute allowing parents to sue over the wrongful death of a minor child applies to “unborn children.” The decision was criticized by the White House, reproductive medicine scientists and some legal experts who warned that the ruling could have profound effects beyond Alabama.

Organizations: University of Alabama, Alabama, White Locations: Birmingham, Alabama

☆ Hydeia Broadbent, H.I.V. and AIDS Activist, Dies at 39
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Orlando Mayorquin | More About Orlando Mayorquin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hydeia Broadbent, who was born with H.I.V. Ms. Broadbent was 6 years old when she began sharing her struggle with H.I.V. In 1992, when she was 7, Ms. Broadbent was interviewed opposite Magic Johnson, the basketball star who after his own H.I.V. “I want people to know that we’re just normal people,” Ms. Broadbent, her face crumpling as she fought through tears, told Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson posted a clip of the conversation online in a tribute Wednesday.

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