Sen Gillibrand On Fetal Personhood in Alabama, And (Maybe) Nationwide
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYC Studios. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Brian Lerer. |
| 0:08.1 | This is my daily politics podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | It's Wednesday, February 28th. |
| 0:15.2 | Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joins us now, as she does once a month. |
| 0:19.6 | And the biggest news from her office right now is that Senator Gillibrand has us now, as she does once a month. And the biggest news from her office right now |
| 0:21.9 | is that Senator Gillibrand has just introduced a bill, responding to the Alabama Supreme Court |
| 0:27.7 | decision, declaring a frozen embryo to be a child under the law. One result of the ruling already in |
| 0:34.6 | Alabama is that in vitro fertilization clinics in that state, as you've |
| 0:39.3 | no doubt heard, have stopped serving patients trying to get pregnant. And that could happen nationwide, |
| 0:45.9 | depending on how this goes. Senator Gillibrand's bill would establish a woman's right under federal |
| 0:51.3 | law to access IVF and other assisted reproductive technology. |
| 0:56.3 | So let's find out more. |
| 0:57.5 | Senator, always good of you to come on and answer questions every month. |
| 1:00.2 | Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:02.8 | Thanks, Brian. |
| 1:04.1 | Tell us about your bill. |
| 1:06.6 | So as you said, it would create a federal law preempting state and local laws that are |
| 1:14.1 | intentionally restricting access to assisted reproductive technology. |
| 1:19.4 | That includes IVF, it includes other reproductive care, and it establishes an individual |
| 1:24.8 | right to access this kind of care and projects a medical |
| 1:28.3 | provider to be able to provide it and safeguards and insurance carriers right to cover it. |
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