Overturning Roe v. Wade threatens the delivery of safe fertility care. Here’s why.
At Béa Fertility, our position is clear: every human deserves to access the reproductive care they need to start — and grow — their family.
For those struggling with infertility, conception is not a moment, it is a process.
For many families, life ‘begins’ after a months-long — sometimes years-long — treatment process that is the most painful, impactful and hopeful journey of people’s lives. The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have a devastating impact on this journey.
Safe access to abortion is a critical, life-saving part of the fertility treatment journey. Overturning Roe v. Wade will only serve to make the conception journey more painful, higher-risk and more uncertain for all.
22 states are set to ban abortions in the near term. 5 of those 22 states will have near total bans. 6 of those 22 states will introduce bills establishing fetal personhood — the idea that every fertilized egg is entitled to full protection of the law — and in Oklahoma, SRJ 17 cleared the senate in March.
These laws are worryingly vague on the distinction between an embryo in a petri dish and an embryo implanted in a uterus. In our world, that distinction is critical. Lawmakers say they do not seek to…
