The networks are doing their level best to continue to fuel the ongoing panic over in-vitro fertilization treatments (IVF) in the wake of Alabama’s Supreme Court opinion that granted embryos rights equal to those of a child in utero. But from watching the coverage, it is pretty obvious that what is happening is about something beyond just IVF.
The most nakedly obvious framing comes, as is often the case, via ABC’s David Muir on World News Tonight:
DAVID MUIR: Meantime, back here in the U.S. tonight, and to the new fallout that could affect so many women in this country. It comes after that decision declaring frozen embryos are people by Alabama’s highest court. Tonight, more Alabama hospitals and clinics have halted IVF, even with women, families, in the middle of treatments. Tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris saying this is because of Donald Trump…
