Election 2024: IVF restrictions worry many

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When the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the Constitutional right to abortion in its Dobbs decision – Democrats warned it was just the tip of the iceberg – that conservatives would soon come for in vitro fertilization and birth control. That fear seemed to become a reality earlier this year – when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are unborn children – imperiling IVF in the state. Eventually, lawmakers passed a law protecting the procedure. But the idea of fetal personhood – that embryos are children with the same rights as anyone else – is spreading across the country and could galvanize at least some voters this coming November. Toni Waterman reports.