Home Speaker Mike Johnson declined to say whether or not the destruction of unused embryos — a part of the in vitro fertilization course of — was homicide on Thursday.
“It is one thing that we have got to grapple with,” he stated in an interview with “CBS Mornings” on Thursday. “It is a courageous new world. IVF’s solely been invented I believe within the early 70s … we assist the sanctity of life, after all, and we assist IVF and full entry to it.”
When he was requested to make clear his ideas, he known as on policymakers to look extra carefully on the problem to find out how greatest to deal with unused embryos created through IVF.
Alabama’s Supreme Courtroom dominated final month that frozen embryos have been kids, prompting fertility clinics within the state to pause IVF procedures and kicking off a nationwide backlash. The state’s governor signed a legislation to guard the process earlier this week.
Though Johnson has beforehand stated he helps IVF, he stated Congress wouldn’t take up the difficulty.
“If you happen to do imagine that life begins at conception, it is a actually necessary query to wrestle with,” he stated. “It is not one Congress has handled. It will not be. I believe it is a states’ problem and states should be dealing with that.”
