If it's Thursday a rift in the Republican Party widens after that major

Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children as fertility clinics

halt treatment and the White House tries to seize on the

issue politically.

Plus divisions in both parties on full display as some Democratic voters in the critical

battleground state of Michigan look to rebuke President

Biden and his handling of the Hamas war at the polls.

And after months of inaction on Capitol Hill, the White House is now considering

cracking down on the southern border with new asylum restrictions without the

help of Congress. I'll talk to a Republican House lawmaker who's still holding

out hope for a bipartisan deal. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker and Washington as we track the growing legal, medical and

political fallout of the recent Alabama Supreme Court decision that embryos

are children. It's a ruling that has major implications for fertility

treatment and reproductive health in Alabama and beyond and the White House is

rising to seize on the issue

politically to paint Republicans is out of touch and extreme. The ruling issued by Alabama's

all Republican Supreme Court says that the state's wrongful death statutes

legally apply to frozen embryos. The court says those

embryos are the same under Alabama civil law as unborn children, meaning

fertility clinics could face potentially severe penalties for destroying them.

At least three IVF clinics of the state have now paused treatments amid the legal uncertainty.

The ruling is putting pressure on Republicans to take a stand on the case.

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