During the first 10 minutes of his 2024 State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden falsely claimed that the Alabama Supreme Court “shut down IVF treatments across the state,” when in reality it ruled that embryos are people with inherent value, not legal property.
Biden didn’t simply claim that the Cotton State’s court decision to classify embryos as minors under the state’s wrongful death act launched “another assault on freedom” that affected people like his SOTU guest Latorya Beasley, a woman whose embryo transfer was canceled by her Alabama provider. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s guest was also an IVF client.
Latorya Beasley’s dream of having another child was put on hold after the Alabama Supreme Court shut down IVF treatments across the state.
This was unleashed by Donald Trump and the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
It’s time to guarantee the right to IVF nationwide. pic.twitter.com/yFSdRwaONV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 8, 2024
He also pinned the ultimate blame for the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling on the “Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.”
Contrary to the Democrat’s sweeping claims, the Alabama Supreme Court’s civil ruling never dictated how Big Fertility in the state should approach assisted reproductive technologies (ART) or embryo creation. It was fertility facilities in the state that chose to abruptly halt their IVF operations after independently determining that serially creating and discarding unlimited embryos might put them on the legal hook for negligence.
The reason is not pro-life Republicans’ or the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court’s
