Intended Consequences: The Post-Roe Predictability of Alabama’s IVF Fiasco

Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Rev. Terry Williams unpack the news of the day by drawing a clear line between the Alabama Supreme Court’s sweeping ruling on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the growing religious fanaticism that is guiding U.S. political agendas on reproductive health, rights, and justice.

Digging in to the extremist religious rhetoric used by some members of the Alabama Supreme Court, Kelley and Terry tackle the harm that religious anti-abortion rhetoric is doing to patients’ rights and care across the nation, giving a grounded view of the past and a realistic (and still hopeful!) view of what is yet to come for people who desire reproductive freedom.

Links to discussed content: 

• Text of the Alabama Supreme Court IVF decision:
  https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/4b56014daa6dda84/a039b1d9-full.pdf
• Our Faith & Repro Trainings: www.faithchoiceohio.org/trainings
  
• The Alabama IVF Ruling Weaponizes Faith to Harm Families:
  https://msmagazine.com/2024/02/26/alabama-ivf-fertility-religion-supreme-court-republicans-faith/
• Political parties urge members to support IVF publicly:
  www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/us/politics/embryos-ivf-alabama-republican-memo.html
• Overview of the ultra-religious concurring opinion of Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker:
  www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/24/alabama-chief-justice-tom-parker-ivf/
• (Terry's Blog Post) "Fertile Ground: What Today's IVF Debate Means for the Future of Reproductive Freedom": www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/fertile-ground-what-todays-ivf-debate-means-for-the-future-of-reproductive-freedom

Music by Korbin Jones. Image composition of "Ivf" by DrKontogianniIVF via CC0 1.0