Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday hit the Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week that frozen embryos are human beings under state law, saying it puts IVF access at risk.
“Individuals, couples, who want to start a family are now being deprived of access to what can help them start a family,” Harris said at a roundtable discussion on reproductive freedoms. “So on the one hand, the proponents are saying that an individual doesn't have a right to end an unwanted pregnancy, and on the other hand, the individual does not have a right to start a family.”
The vice president also described the suffering women have faced since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
“What we have seen on this issue is — over the course of now, a year and almost a half — people who are suffering every day in our country as a result of this,” Harris said. “Women have been having miscarriages in toilets in our country, have been denied access to emergency care, because of what has been happening.”
