Former President Donald Trump and GOP leaders are furiously distancing themselves from Alabama’s bombshell IVF decision, but White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called BS in a blistering memo tying the decision to Trump and House Republicans.

The Alabama Supreme Court unleashed political hell recently with a decision ruling that embryos frozen for IVF treatments are actual children, and destroying them can be considered wrongful death. Many Republicans, including Trump, have rushed to distance themselves from what has turned out to be a shockingly unpopular decision.

But on Monday morning, Jean-Pierre accused Republicans of “shamelessly attempting to erase their own records on IVF” in a scathing memo that attacks a law that over 120 House Republicans co-sponsored:

MEMO

To: Interested parties

RE: House Republicans scramble to prove they support IVF. Have they forgotten the Life at Conception Act?

Date: February 26, 2024

From: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

When the Supreme Court – enabled by justices nominated by Donald Trump – took the outrageous step of overturning Roe v. Wade and forcing politicians into the most personal decisions women and families can make, it paved the road for Republican elected officials to pursue their extreme agenda. Since then, they have put in place extreme abortion bans in 21 states, proposed three national abortion bans in Congress, and have introduced more than 380 state bills attacking access to reproductive health care.

But it doesn’t stop there.

Birth control access is under attack. Women are being denied care for ectopic pregnancy. And now, with this decision out of Alabama, IVF is under attack.

The backlash and outrage reverberated across the country when the decision out of the Alabama Supreme Court came down. Americans read the devastating reports of families seeking fertility care who don’t know what to do or where to turn, including after investing their life savings attempting to grow their families. Doctors are afraid of prosecution. Fertility clinics are halting operations. And families in other states are worried they might be targeted next.

Apparently during their two week recess, House Republicans read those reports, too.

Now Republican elected officials are shamelessly attempting to erase their own records on IVF. The problem is, they can’t.

Because just last year, over 120 Republicans, including Speaker Johnson, co-sponsored [huffpost.com] the Life at Conception Act, an extreme, dangerous bill that would eliminate reproductive freedom for all women in every state. And it would go even further than most bans currently in effect—starting at the moment of fertilization and making the desperate situation that women and families are facing right now in Alabama the law of the land.

Republican officials think they can obfuscate their way out of their support for these extreme policies. But spin is not a time machine. No attempt to “rebrand” can change the fact that their true colors are on the record. They have spent decades trying to eliminate the constitutional right to choose and undermine reproductive freedom everywhere.

Their agenda is clear, they’re just worried it’s not popular.

Jean-Pierre also ripped the decision at Friday’s White House press briefing.

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