In Louisiana, legislators are already moving in a bold direction. 'And that's a pretty wild place to be in,' she said. Mutcherson said overturning Roe would effectively be the Supreme Court saying: 'Do what you want to do, states!' They just couldn't really enforce them the way they wanted to because Roe and Casey stood in the way,' Rutgers Law School Dean and professor Kimberly Mutcherson said, referring to the 19 Supreme Court abortion precedents. 'States have already taken the liberty of having these expansive definitions.

The doctor spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of their practice and the uncertain future of procedures like IVF in their state.Ī focus of the concern is how some states with anti-abortion trigger laws, like Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky, already define embryos as unborn children at the moment of fertilization - a stance that may provide a starting point for legislators to interfere with the IVF process. 'We are dangling in the wind right now,' one Midwestern reproductive endocrinologist told CNN about the uncertainty looming.

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