Overturning Roe could have major repercussions for IVF treatments, fertility experts warn
News that the
Supreme Court is on the cusp of overturning
Roe v. Wade is sounding alarms for an unexpected part of the population:
people looking to get pregnant and the doctors who are helping them.
The
conservative justices, according to a draft majority opinion disclosed last week, are preparing to give states the full power to determine abortion policies within their borders. Experts say that could open up the
legal terrain for states to interfere with the fertility process known as in
vitro fertilization, in which a sperm fertilizes an
egg outside the body.
Doctors and academics, say there is grave uncertainty - both about how
abortion laws already on the books will be interpreted and about how
lawmakers and
local prosecutors may seek to push the envelope, freed from the precedents.
