Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican from Mississippi, blocked a Senate bill that would protect in-vitro fertilization nationwide drafted in response to Alabama’s Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos were people. The judgment caused fertilization clinics in the state to close, forced hospitals there to cut off related services, and sent legislators rushing to pass a law protecting IVF.Read the rest

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