El director de medios hispanos del Comité Nacional Demócrata, Marco Frieri, emitió la siguiente declaración en respuesta a que los republicanos no pudieron justificar su apoyo a una legislación que amenazaría el acceso a la FIV para las familias en todo Estados Unidos:

“Los republicanos están tratando de encontrar la manera de explicar su apoyo a la legislación extrema contra el derecho a decidir y sus recientes intentos de bloquear las protecciones a la FIV con sus mentiras afirmando que no han hecho tal cosa. La verdad es que no hay manera de encubrir sus acciones. Los extremistas MAGA en el Congreso se están uniendo a Donald Trump para presionar por una prohibición nacional del aborto, mientras respaldan una legislación de la Cámara que amenazaría el acceso a la FIV y han bloqueado protecciones esenciales para la FIV en el Senado. El pueblo estadounidense no se tragará las mentiras MAGA; sabe bien que sus libertades más básicas están en riesgo, incluyendo su capacidad de formar y hacer crecer una familia”.

NUEVO: Los republicanos extremistas están luchando por explicar cómo es que pueden apoyar la FIV a pesar de haber respaldado la Ley de Vida desde la Concepción, la misma que podría privar a las familias de todo el país del acceso a la FIV.

Daily Beast: “Republicans Struggle to Explain Away Their Hypocrisy on IVF”

“When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos could be considered children, it put an unpopular target on the most effective fertility treatment in the country. It also put a target on the backs of Republicans, with many GOP politicians suddenly facing questions about their long-held beliefs about when life begins.

“Squaring support for in vitro fertilization with the general GOP position—that life begins at conception—is hard enough. But many Republicans, from Donald Trump to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), rushed to do just that in the aftermath of the Alabama ruling.

“And yet, for some GOP lawmakers, there’s a reason why supporting IVF may come off as disingenuous: they’re cosponsors of a bill, ‘The Life at Conception Act,’ that would vow to protect ‘all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization.’

“If you ask these Republicans how they square their newfound public support for IVF with their support for a measure that would undermine IVF, you’ll get some tortured—though, at times, candid—answers.

“‘With difficulty,’ is how Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) responded last week.

“If these GOP lawmakers are relying on medical science to guide their opinions, it’s clear many haven’t done much research.

“But therein lies one of the ironies of lawmakers making health decisions. These Republicans aren’t deferring to doctors to make law; they’re making sweeping statements about when life begins—and then trying to draft laws that conform to those beliefs.

“For fertility expert Dr. Eve Feinberg—an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine—legislation that assigns personhood to embryos is ‘very problematic for IVF.’ … But time and again, Republicans didn’t see any issue with their bill and their sudden support for IVF.

“There are 124 House Republicans who have signed on to the Life at Conception Act—including Speaker Johnson. The bill has become the subject of intense scrutiny after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created by IVF are legally ‘children.’ … Concerns about clinics being held liable for damage done to the embryos under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act have had a chilling effect; several Alabama IVF providers have already discontinued the treatment.

“The logic of the Alabama Supreme Court decision underpins the Life at Conception Act. Embryos, supporters argue, are humans and should be treated as such under the law. If the Life at Conception Act passed, experts say it could have massive ramifications for IVF access nationwide.”

“Democrats have also proposed their own IVF safeguards. Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) introduced a bill to protect IVF in January. But despite the supposed GOP support for IVF, of the bill’s 102 sponsors, not one is a Republican at the moment.”

“Not everyone in the GOP is going for moderation. Some Republican lawmakers were quite forthcoming about their concerns with—even outright opposition to—IVF.”

Los republicanos en el Senado bloquearon protecciones básicas para la fertilización in vitro, mientras 125 republicanos en la Cámara apoyan la Ley de Vida desde la Concepción.

Telemundo: “En un momento en que los republicanos luchan por cohesionarse en torno al mismo mensaje sobre el aborto de cara a las elecciones de 2024, una reciente decisión de la Corte Suprema de Alabama, según la cual los embriones creados mediante fecundación in vitro (FIV) se consideran “niños”, ha puesto al partido en un nuevo aprieto.

El dictamen ha creado complicaciones para los políticos que apoyan las restricciones al aborto, quienes defienden que la vida comienza en el momento de la concepción o consideran que un embrión o feto merece todos los derechos de una persona”.

Associated Press: “Republicans block Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments”

Business Insider: “Most House Republicans have cosponsored a bill declaring that life begins from the moment of conception, a position under increased scrutiny after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are ‘unborn children.’

“This Congress, 125 House Republicans — including Speaker Mike Johnson — have cosponsored the ‘Life at Conception Act,’ which states that the term ‘human being’ includes ‘all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.’

“The bill does not include any exception for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a reproductive treatment that allows mothers to fertilize several eggs outside the womb in order to increase the chances of a viable pregnancy.”

NBC News: “But with the landmark Roe ruling protecting those rights gone, efforts by conservative lawmakers and judges to advance fetal personhood bills pose a real threat to some fertility treatments, including IVF, reproductive rights advocates say.”

Politico: “Dozens of congressional Republicans have signed onto so-called personhood legislation with no carve-out for embryos in clinics, which, if enacted, would upend how the procedure is practiced in the United States.”

Donald Trump hizo posible la decisión de la Corte Suprema de Alabama que suspende el tratamiento de FIV, y todavía se jacta de su papel en la anulación de Roe v. Wade y exige crédito por las prohibiciones extremas del aborto en todo el país.

Prensa Latina: “Según la ley estatal los embriones congelados son niños y de momento las clínicas de fertilidad en el estado, así como parejas como las de Susan y su esposo Billy Clark que están buscando tener un hijo mediante fertilización in vitro en lo adelante quedarán en un limbo.

La decisión sin precedentes renueva el debate sobre el tema del aborto, tan llevado y traído en el país desde que en junio de 2022 el Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos derogó un histórico fallo que brindó la protección legal a los derechos reproductivos”.

La Opinión: “El Tribunal Supremo de Alabama emitió el viernes un fallo sin precedentes en el que estableció que los embriones congelados son “niños” y determinó que quienes destruyen un embrión congelado pueden ser considerados responsables de la muerte de un menor”.

CNN: “How the reversal of Roe v. Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children”

New York Times: “[The Alabama ruling was] made possible by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in its 2022 Dobbs decision, which was a result of Mr. Trump’s appointment of three justices.”

Trump: “Durante 54 años intentaron que se rescindiera Roe v. Wade, y yo lo logré, y estoy orgulloso de haberlo hecho. … Nadie más iba a lograr eso excepto yo, y lo hicimos, e hicimos algo que fue un milagro”.

Trump: “Después de 50 años de fracaso, sin que nadie se acercara siquiera, pude matar Roe v. Wade, para gran ‘shock’ de todos… Sin mí no habría 6 semanas, 10 semanas, 15 semanas, o lo que sea que finalmente aceptó. Sin mí, el  movimiento pro vida habría seguido perdiendo. ¡¡¡Gracias presidente TRUMP!!!”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Claims Credit for All Abortion Bans”

Business Insider: “Trump boasts he’s ‘proud’ about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade, the issue that has become ballot-box poison for Republicans”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Says He’s ‘Proud’ to Have ‘Terminated’ Abortion Rights”

Anuncio de campaña de Trump en radio: “Y Trump nominó jueces conservadores, lo que llevó a la anulación de Roe v. Wade“.

FWIW: “This week, we found more evidence that the Trump campaign has no interest in ‘moderating’ on the issue of abortion. On Monday, his team began running new Facebook video ads targeting voters in Iowa, referring to Trump as ‘THE MOST Pro-Life President in history.’”