Republican lawmakers who are trying to protect in-vitro fertilization treatments risk legalizing “back-door abortion,” a state official claims.
“Political views vary around reproductive rights, and access to IVF is likely to become an issue in upcoming election cycles,” Nurse Heidi Collins Fantasia writes.
Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., blocked legislation that would protect access to IVF treatments nationwide.
“You may believe you will never need an abortion, nor will you ever get one,” Stacey Spiehler writes. “I understand that belief, because I once had it. But in the end, how much do you trust your government with your medical choices regarding your body?”
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn said on May 9, 2022, that “the Mississippi House of Representatives would not move legislation banning contraceptives forward,” describing concerns over the possibility in the event of the overturn of Roe v. Wade as left-wing “scaremongering.” But in 2011, Gunn endorsed the Personhood Amendment, a ballot initiative 58% of voters rejected that would have banned all abortions in addition to endangering several forms of contraception, such as IUDs and Plan B.
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