When Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., blocked a vote on congressional Democrats’ radical assisted reproductive technology bill at the end of February, she cited Louisiana as an example of a state with “common-sense” in vitro fertilization restrictions. Those little protections the 1986 law provided to unborn life, however, are subject to change now that the state House has advanced two bills aimed at shielding fertility facilities that handle and store embryos from liability.
A coalition of Republican and Democrat legislators in Louisiana — egged on by corporate media and their fearmongering about the Alabama Supreme Court’s embryo ruling — advanced two bills this week that seek to overhaul the Pelican State’s 1986 law governing embryos.
The state’s current statute appears to offer embryos protections that other states don’t by classifying them as…
