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How a Billionaire’s ‘Baby Project’ Ensnared Dozens of Women – Bloomberg
“Lindberg’s legacy to the fertility industry, thus far at least, might be to convey to any wealthy person that they can get away with executing their own version of the baby project…
“Cases such as these, as well as Lindberg’s, come at a delicate moment for America’s fertility industry. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, unraveling the federal right to abortion, Republicans have introduced a wave of “fetal personhood” bills in state legislatures around the country, seeking to give fetuses and sometimes embryos legal rights. In February the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are “unborn children,” siding with couples who sued an IVF clinic after some of their embryos were accidentally destroyed. An overwhelming share of Americans support access to IVF, and President-elect Donald Trump aligned himself with access on the campaign trail, at one point declaring himself “the father of IVF” while promising to guarantee insurance coverage for the treatment. But Senate Republicans have twice blocked a Democratic bill this year that would provide a nationwide right to IVF treatments, and Trump’s vice president-to-be, JD Vance, has voted against expanding access to them as a senator from Ohio…”
The Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion – Politico
“The arc of the fetal personhood movement signals where Republicans may be headed.”