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Hi there, assignment listeners.

So our team is working on upcoming shows.

But in the meantime, I wanted to bring you an episode of Chasing Life,

which is a podcast hosted by my colleague, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. So it's a show he did about

IVF when the Supreme Court of Alabama declared embryos as children. And this is something

that, you know, me and the assignment team, we've been talking about how to do this in our

editorial meetings. And then we heard this episode and we realized there isn't know, me and the assignment team, we've been talking about how to do this in our editorial

meetings. And then we heard this episode and we realized there isn't a better version of this

conversation than this one. So in this episode, Sanjay explores the handling of embryos during

the IVF process. He discusses the controversial nature of the ruling for fertility care providers. And then

there are these great insights into the reactions of families and fertility clinics in Alabama.

I want to thank you for listening. Please stick around because this is really a fascinating and an

important conversation. It's very scary to think how much I've invested into this, how close I am to the end of this procedure.

I've been waiting over two years to be pregnant.

So there is no world where I could see me stopping this process right now.

That's 26-year-old Gabrielle Goidel,

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