Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈<p>Trump <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/executiveorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>executiveorder</span></a> declaring only ‘two <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexes</span></a>’ gets the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> wrong, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a> say . </p><p>Order describes sex as an ‘immutable biological classification set at conception as either <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/male" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>male</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/female" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>female</span></a>’, but all <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/embryos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>embryos</span></a> start out as <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/female" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>female</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/trump-executive-order-only-two-sexes-not-supported-by-science/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">statnews.com/2025/01/23/trump-</span><span class="invisible">executive-order-only-two-sexes-not-supported-by-science/</span></a></p>
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“This isn’t a bottom-up change,” said Mary Ziegler, a #law professor & historian of the #antiabortion movement. “It aligns w/the #SouthernBaptist Convention trying to figure out how #ultraconservative it’s going to be on #personhood,” she said of the #Christian movement that sees #embryos & #FertilizedEggs as human beings w/ #legal rights. [but not #women]
Per @politico
IVF is in some serious danger from the #LifeCrazies, whose heads exploded when #embryos were pronounced children by the morality policing GOP #MAGA. Which is well supported, tragically.
Organizations including Heritage, former Vice President Mike Pence’s group have worked behind the scenes over the last few weeks to circulate policy recommendations and educate Republican officials about their ethical concerns with how #IVF is commonly practiced in the United States.
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#Alabama has a near-total #AbortionBan, & #IVF services were paused last month because of a court ruling equating #FrozenEmbryos to children.
#MarilynLands defeated #Republican Teddy Powell to win the open legislative seat, acc/to unofficial returns Tues. Powell, a member of the Madison City Council, issued a statement conceding the race & congratulating Lands on her victory.
#MarilynLands, a Dem who made #ReproductiveRights a centerpiece of her campaign in deeply #conservative #Alabama, won a special election to the Alabama Legislature.
Lands’ victory in the suburban district in the #DeepSouth state was celebrated by #Democrats who have attempted to portray the state #GOP as too extreme on #abortion & reproductive rights.
#law #AbortionBan #IVF #FrozenEmbryos #embryos #personhood #AbortionRights #AbortionIsHealthcare #Vote
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-ivf-abortion-legislature-378c3fa32dcfc2d0401f3893828482af
AP News · Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House
In his SOTU, President Joe Biden called out attacks on abortion and IVF. In the video linked below, Robert P. Jones notes that only 9% of Americans support a total ban on abortion. 64% say abortion should be legal in most or all cases. This is why Republicans want to hedge on what they have held up to now about IVF — which is a direct consequence of their insistence that a human person is present from the moment of conception.
#Republicans #abortion #IVF #embryos #women
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republican-anti-abortion-agenda-and-bans-on-ivf-205723205615
MSNBC · Republican anti-abortion agenda and bans on IVF
Ala. passes law to shield IVF, but legal and ideological questions loom - Enlarge / The Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on Wednesda... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008730 #invitrofertilization #fertilization #personhood #fertility #abortion #children #immunity #science #alabama #embryos #health #ivf
Ars Technica · After ruling that embryos are children, Ala. hastily enacts IVF protectionsRepublican lawmakers struggle to deal with their own incongruent legislation.
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Please understand: I do not think that a zygote is a human person deserving full protection of the law for that reason.
I am simply pointing out that for a long time now, "pro-life" Republicans have claimed that they are defending a non-negotiable principle that a human person is present from the moment of conception, and have sought in every way to impose this religious belief on all of us by force of law.
And now we find they never believed what they were saying.
I'm appalled that the state of Alabama is now choosing to place the lives of extrauterine children — babies in test tubes — at risk in this way, after having just reminded us that "unborn children who are not physically located ‘in utero'" — babies in test tubes — have full human status and full human rights.
You either believe this or you don't, and if you claim to believe it and premise law on it, there can be no exceptions. Life is life.