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Nikki Haley Desperately Tries to Walk Back Comment on Alabama Embryo Ruling (newrepublic.com)

submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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As hospitals across Alabama pause IVF treatments, Nikki Haley is suddenly trying to claim she never said what she said.

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is frantically trying to quell the controversy over comments she made about IVF after an Alabama court’s recent ruling that frozen embryos are children.

“We don’t want fertility treatment to shut down, we don’t want them to stop doing IVF treatment, we don’t want them to stop doing artificial insemination,” Haley said on CNN on Thursday. “But I think this needs to be decided by the people in every state. Don’t take away the rights of these physicians and these parents to have these conversations.”

It was Haley’s second such attempt to explain away her controversial stance on the issue. On Wednesday evening, Haley blurted out a much more gibberish response.

“Well first off all, this is, again, I didn’t say that I agreed with the Alabama ruling. The question that I was asked is ‘do I believe an embryo is a baby?’” Haley said on CNN Wednesday evening. “I do think that if you look in the definition, an embryo is considered an unborn baby. And so yes, I believe, from my stance, that that is.”

But calling an embryo—the stage before the microscopic cellular mass is labeled a fetus—an unborn baby is not exactly correct.

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Maybe she should get clear on the definitions, and make a statement on what she actually believes.
Because this correction she just made, is based on a very fundamental misunderstanding of what an embryo is.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

Because the anti-choice crowd will not accept any answer other than “life begins at conception.”

[-] neoman4426@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

Which is weird since their own book explicitly says life begins at first breath, provides instructions for a cheating detecting potion that'll induce abortion if the woman cheated, etc

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

If they actually read their book there wouldn’t be any Christians left

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago

Maybe she should get clear on the definitions

She knows. She's apparently had IVF herself.

What a piece of shit, scumbag hypocrite she is.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Nah. They are based on a basic misunderstanding of what "the Republican base" actually wants.

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