States may make it harder for LGBTQ people to start families if the Supreme Court overturns Roe

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If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this month, as it appears poised to do if Justice Samuel Alito’s recently leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is any indication, abortion may not be the only reproductive care at risk. As Giulia Carbonaro writes for Newsweek, “In a post-Roe world, in vitro fertilization (IVF)—the fertility treatment used by millions of Americans every year—could be in danger.”

And some of those millions of Americans are, of course, LGBTQ people hoping to start families.

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Carbonaro isn’t the first to sound the alarm on IVF. Experts and journalists have been examining the far-reaching consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade since Politico broke the story in early May.

As the Newsweek piece notes, it’s common to fertilize more than one egg to maximize the chances of IVF treatments being successful. Once the person receiving IVF is pregnant, any extra fertilized eggs are usually discarded.

Many of the trigger laws designed to outlaw abortion…

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