Also in the Alabama ruling on frozen embryos is this:
“Doctors must create just one embryo at a time. Each embryo, no matter how poor its quality, must be transferred. Only one embryo may be transferred at a time. If the cycle fails, the whole process must start all over again.
IVF patients would have to accept the transfer of a single low-quality embryo that is certain to fail—and to do so one embryo at a time. Each transfer requires months’ worth of expensive medication, including injectable, both before and after the procedure. And each failed cycle requires the patient to start all over again. Most states (including Alabama) do not require insurance to cover IVF, and each cycle can cost up to $30,000. This would force patients—the ones who can afford it—to undergo doomed, single-embryo transfers, one by one.”
If you know ANYONE who has been through IVF, you know exactly how fucking cruel this is.
I feel like we’re not talking enough about the fact that the Alabama Supreme Court quoted the Bible and cited the “wrath of God” as their legal reasoning for why frozen embryos are in fact “children.”
@bchydro approaching 6 hours without power during a winter storm is starting to feel concerning when there’s no real updates about when power might be back tonight
Wheel of Fortune needs to let the winners stay on and play the next day like on Jeopardy. I want to see Beulah from Missoula go on a tear and win four Hyundai Sonatas and six trips to a Margaritaville resort