Ana Marie Cox Instagram – Second column this week on Republicans’ response to the Alabama ruling, because it can’t be said enough: Do not equate some GOP elected officials’ backpeddling on IVF as some kind of softening on their anti-choice stance. Elevating the embryo to “personhood” has put them in this legal bind and the far right is *find with it.* GOP politicians will have to cave to extremists, and they will.
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Exhortations by some Republicans to “safeguard” IVF even as they proclaim themselves anti-abortion aren’t calibrations to a hypothetical middle ground. They are, at best, banal confessions of self-interest and lack of self-awareness. Like similarly hypocritical carveouts for rape and incest in abortion bans, the existence of conservatives who want to be pro-IVF and anti-abortion only shows how much the anti-abortion movement depends on people ignoring the consequences of its policies. | Posted on 02/Mar/2024 21:57:06
