New Hampshire GOP Senate Nominee: 'We've Got to Do Something' About In Vitro Fertilization

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc signaled that he’s open to limiting in-vitro fertilization, and would support a federal national abortion ban, during a taped conversation by Democratic operatives earlier this week in New Hampshire. “It is a disgusting practice,” Bolduc said of fertility clinics disposing of embryos in audio obtained by Vanity Fair. “I don’t like that practice at all, and I think it’s a separate issue, and we’ve got to do something about it.”

Bolduc is running to unseat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), the former governor who flipped the seat in the 2016 election. He’s a typical right-wing kook: Bolduc has questioned if the FBI should exist; he signed onto a letter with current and former military officers that said Trump won the election “and damn it, I stand by [it];” and Bolduc has also said the question of abortion law “belongs to these gentlemen right here, who are state legislators representing you. That is the best way I think, as a man, that women get the best voice.”

On his path toward giving women the best voice, Bolduc told the Democratic operative that he’s open to a federal abortion ban. “Put it this way, I am not going to say no, right?” he said. Then he backtracks. “Cause I have said no, no on an abortion ban at the federal level, but these other things, we’ve got to look into them. I don’t like that practice at all and I think it’s a separate issue and we’ve got to do something about it.”

Doing something about IVF and embryo disposal is another stop on the road toward fetal personhood status—something that already exists in Georgia. Bolduc’s hesitancy about one facet of fertility clinics is a part of a bigger play by anti-abortion activists. “Ultimately, we believe that all human life is valuable and deserves our legal protection from that beginning moment of fertilization, whether that occurs through normal means or through IVF,” Rebecca Parma, senior legislative associate with Texas Right to Life, told a local Texas news outlet in July. “And so certainly we want those embryos who are created through the IVF process protected.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-hampshire-gop-senate-nominee-we-ve-got-to-do-something-about-in-vitro-fertilization/ar-AA12Y2zG

[Diamond_Dog]

1. When I hear these nincompoops say stuff like this

I wish I had a big hook like on The Gong Show to drag them off the stage and shove them out the door.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. What's his beef with test tube babies?

The sperms are having too much fun in there?

[Mariana]

4. It isn't Gawd's will, I suppose.

[David__77]

5. Probably because of all the surplus embryos created by it.

A large number of which are then destroyed. The anti abortion people generally avoid talking about these “babies”- at least until now.

[musette_sf]

3. Isn't this dude

Tulsi’s new BFF?

[jmowreader]

6. This is the best part

People rich enough to afford IVF and entitled enough to demand their “own” children rather than trying for adoption, are also more likely to vote for Republicans.

This isn’t AS bad as Herschel Walker, who seems to be running a tab at an abortion clinic, but it’s not great either.