Fertility Doctors Raise Alarm About Amy Coney Barrett’s Stance On IVF | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Rachel Maddow shares a rare statement from fertility doctors in the journal "Fertility and Sterility" who caution that "seating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court threatens those who seek to build a family through in-vitro fertilization." Aired on 10/13/2020.
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61 comments

    1. @Ash Roskell Trump hasn’t invaded my life at all. I now own a house and make more money and am way happier. Pro tip for you: get off social media and live your life.

    2. That’s because alot of people are content defining themselves along simplistic party lines or ideological lines. Republicunts, Democretins, Left, Right, Progressive, Conservatives..
      Personally, I don’t subscribe to one particular ideological or political identity. I vote depending on my conscience. It could mean conservative on some issues while Progressive on others.

    3. @Ash Roskell Gee Ash, I don’t know whether to say, YES COMRADE, or Seig Heil to you. Maybe you should try moving to another country if your such a miserable POS.

    1. @Nick Fuller We do this to organ transplant. Give the organ to the most viable candidate. Just in this case we implant the most viable embryo.

    2. @macbeth moray were not gonna agree on this. You think of an embryo like an organ and I think of it as something else

    3. @macbeth moray No I was agreeing with your statement “To me is like they are trying to force people to keep unwanted pregnancy and not allow people that want kids to get pregnant.” Sorry not calling you idiotic.

    1. @J Andrews Yes. Actually, as a matter of historical interest, this was an early objection to the development of in vitro fertilisation for humans. If you define life as the moment when a viable egg is penetrated by viable sperm, then (as it was argued early on), the need to fertilise several eggs, but implant only one or two means that impregnated cells are disposed of and the ethical question raised back in the 1960s (I think it was) had to do with the disposal of ‘living’ embryos. Later, in some countries, ‘life’ was defined as the ability of a foetus to survive independent of the womb… so around 7 months onwards. In my own country, termination of pregnancy is permitted after receiving doctor’s advice, up to about 3 months, but in other countries it is permitted much later, and in some the definition of ‘life’ is the moment of birth. But that is what I expect is the substance of any objection which Barrett might feel against IVF. It’s a very old, but genuinely ethical medical question which most countries have resolved in medicine and in law. Apparently not she.

    2. @J Andrews Yep. In most cases some of the implanted fertilized eggs either dont implant, or are rejected like *natural* spontaneous abortions.

      Barrett is the type of woman who thinks a religious denomination should decide who to jail when – for the same “offense”.

    1. No. He did not. He got monoclonal antibodies produced in mouse cells.
      Such antibodies are tested with cell fragments that are the derivatives of a fetal cell line harvested in the seventies in the Netherlands. If the fetus got turned into a human adult, maybe she could have adopted, raised and educated you. Or she would be your first lady now … who knows.

    1. @Diving Duck HI DUCK, …extraordinary women like Speaker Pelosi from California, extraordinary women like the daughter of John McCain from the Wild West (AZ) . E Warren is also very intelligent . And they are also able to play hardball . Able to develope the American Health System .

  1. Every sperm is sacred
    Every sperm is great
    If a sperm is wasted
    God gets quite irate

    MPFC – The meaning of life!

    1. 100,000 sperm and Trump made it through? Here’s what you and every Pro-lifer are REALLY saying: “Pro-embryo/anti-child… Pro-soldier/ anti- vet! Your actions most definitely have spoken louder than your words. Plus, men everywhere should never ever have a say.

    1. As has been said during all of trump’s occupation of the White House, “Y’all ain’t seen nothing yet!”

    2. Well they all came out of the democratic woodwork when Trump was elected, kinda like when you turn on the lights and your room has roaches in it.

  2. “HANDMAID’S TAIL” Final season – coming to your country America . Aunt Lydia is in the house ….and you let it happen….

    1. That criminal in the White House lost by more than 3 million votes. The system is rigged. How did we LET this happen?

  3. Wow, let’s go back to the middle ages. Good luck telling other countries how to live their lives. Americas reputation is in the toilet.

    1. Really? I can tell you watch only news sources like this garbage from Madcow to form your opinion of what the world thinks of us. Well, since before covid hit, I travel around the world on business and I can tell you that I met a lot more people 10 -1 that like Trump and how strong a leader he is. They think that the dems have lost their minds with the BS they’re spewing.

  4. I have two cousins who would’ve never existed if not for IVF.

    One is in college. The other is a tax paying business owner before the age of 25.

    Is Barrett REALLY the best they have to put up? Sad, if true.

    How bizarre that I know *two living breathing reasons* for why the American state was clearly intended to be a state instead of a church!

    1. Great. She stated she wouldn’t use IVF. She is not ruling against IVF. I am not sure leftists know the difference.

    2. “Is Barrett REALLY the best they have to put up? Sad, if true.” If your voting for Harris/Biden, you got no room to talk. Comparing intelligence, she’s a 1000watt light bulb to Joes 10 watt seldom on, and Cumala’s 20 watt evil glow. Dems weren’t smart enough to choose their brightest and best – Tulsi Gabbard who plunged a knife into the heart of Kamala with how she withheld evidence of an innocent man who was imprisoned and had to have a judge order her to release the evidence, who put many in jail for pot while laughing about her own smoking of weed. Yeah, that’s YOUR best???

  5. Americans will simply go to another country for IVF treatment, not that they should have to. The US seems to be stepping further back in time in everything with trump in office…….except making sure other countries have the weapons they need to destroy America. 911 didn’t bring the US to its knees, but trump can

  6. I see that a vicious excuse to rebuild and raise up all the population, passed away.
    That’s trash, keep wait for that miševent.

  7. Why on earth would she want to imprison women who go through fertility treatments? That doesn’t make sense. She trying to make a case for having a handmaid?

  8. America is not a democracy…..it is a bad role-model to other countries. Too many selfish, Climate change denying evil people.

  9. That “judge”is against everything after 1900 Rhights of woman etc.
    Lats say thay a judge shout be a man. That woman belongs after the sink and breading babys

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