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Today, Explained

The politics of IVF

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A theologian explains why he agrees with Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children. A conservative pollster explains why it's a bad look heading into the 2024 election. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Last week the Alabama Supreme Court said that frozen embryos were children and boom

0:06.0

Just like that the United States had a new culture war. I warned that red states would come for IVF and now they have.

0:14.0

When you talk about an embryo, you are talking about to me,

0:18.3

that's a life.

0:19.2

Obviously an embryo transfer doesn't mean

0:21.1

that it's a guarantee that you'll end up with the baby.

0:23.0

But without that, there's no hope of us having a baby.

0:28.0

The vast majority of Americans support fertility treatments.

0:31.0

Heck, the vast majority of Americans think insurance should cover fertility

0:35.2

treatments. But on today explained, we're going to hear why some religious conservatives think

0:39.6

this process is an abomination and why they think their views should be imposed on you and what the political

0:46.4

implications of this Alabama ruling might be in this here election year of hours.

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