Thursday on Huntsville WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show," State Sen. Sam Givhan (R-Huntsville) pushed back on the national media narrative that Alabama was against in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and had banned the procedure.
The issue was brought to light after clinics in Alabama suspended IVF programs after the State Supreme Court ruled IVF embryos were protected under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
Givhan noted that the Alabama Legislature had worked quickly to pass a bill to provide protections for clinics that performed IVF procedures and said it was "ridiculous" to claim the state didn't support IVF.
"[W]e cannot pass a bill any faster than five legislative days. And I think my response was to be five to six legislative days, and we passed it in five legislative days. So you know, there was no filibuster, there was no, you know, the biggest drama was some nuances, I think that maybe UAB and some others wanted in the bill, got it worked out, we moved it on," Givhan outlined. "You know, is that the ideal fix? No, it's not the ideal fix, but it did solve the problem there. And the idea that we don't support IVF is ridiculous."
"I mean, there's all kinds of people that need it," he continued. "And there's people that are, you know, close to the show that have benefited from it. There's a number of, you know, people of my friends and constituents that, you know, wouldn't, well, I say wouldn't, they wouldn't have the children that they have without it. They might have had other children, but, you know, it's very important to our state."
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