Republicans dug their own grave on IVF. Now they’re trying to lie their way out

When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the “death of embryos kept in a cryogenic nursery” constituted the “wrongful death of a minor,” it did not refer to any law involving in vitro fertilization, commonly known as IVF. Instead, it referenced the state constitution and a concept that is at the core of almost every Republican bill on abortion. 

Page 8 of the ruling reads, “All parties to the case, like all members of this Court, agree that an unborn child is a genetically unique human being whose life begins at fertilization and ends at death.” 

If they genuinely believe that “life begins at fertilization,” then every IVF attempt is mass murder. 

IVF is fundamentally at odds with the idea that life begins at conception. That’s not a trap that “pro-life” Republicans are going to easily escape. And the more they try to have it both ways, the more everything they’re saying is revealed as nonsense.