Although the Supreme Court’s ruling against abortion will not affect treatments such as In-Vitro fertilization, experts assure that due to the ambiguous language that the laws in some states of the nation have, these procedures could be prohibited.
“When this precedent is opened where the court ignores its previous jurisprudence under the weak argument that the right to abortion was not exegetically stipulated in the 14th amendment, then a huge door is opened that can lead to subsequent ignorance of other rights that it has made. the court also included assisted reproduction techniques,” explained Catalina Martínez Coral, regional director of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
The lack of precision written in the laws of some states would jeopardize assisted reproductive technology and therefore endanger the lives of many women.
“Let’s say that this is the most dire consequence that these women are going to be forced to seek these services in clandestine conditions and often in insecurity, putting their lives and health at risk and perhaps we will see a public health problem in the United States. in a few months”, assured Coral.
As for assisted fertility, some steps in this process may be vulnerable to interference from state governments.
“A large part of the right to decide on reproduction has to do with the right to privacy that the Supreme Court granted in 1965, so moving the right to privacy there removes the right to decide on reproduction,” said Andrés Quintero, political expert.
And it is that some states could interpret assisted reproduction as something that does not reflect biological reality.
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