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Yikes, as the extremism of the anti-IVF fetal personhood position becomes apparent to normal people, the more politically astute right wingers are backpedaling. But that’s leading to backlash from the nuts in their coalition that they’ve spent decades appeasing. What to do?!
‘License to kill’: Anti-abortion groups rage against the GOP
‘License to kill’: Anti-abortion groups rage against the GOP
The anti-abortion movement is turning on Republican lawmakers who support bills to protect in vitro fertilization, accusing them of sanctioning murder.
As many politicians raced in recent weeks to get to the right side of public opinion on IVF, some of the country’s biggest and most influential anti-abortion groups are pushing back.
Other groups are going further, running ads against longstanding GOP allies that use the same graphic imagery — blood, babies and scalpels — they have long deployed to oppose Democrats and the abortion-rights movement.
The tension over IVF underscores a deepening divide as Republicans grapple with new political and policy consequences of passing laws declaring that life begins at conception. After marching in lockstep for decades against Roe v. Wade, conservatives are clashing in the post-Roe era over what it means to be “pro-life.”