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Not the Nannies!

Having both had our children in our later thirties, my friend Liza and I would often talk about the ups and downs of being older, full-time moms. “Sometimes I get frustrated when younger moms and au pairs at the playground assume I am either the grandmother or babysitter,” she said one day. “I want a shirt that says, ‘Not the Nanny’!”

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IVF

Life-Giving Legislation

The Alabama Supreme Court ruling in February reaffirming the humanness of frozen embryos and the subsequent threats by the IVF industry to shut down if required to operate responsibly sent lawmakers into a tizzy. Democrats — and some Republicans — began creating legislation to protect IVF even though no one was outlawing the practice.

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IVF

Designed Babies

IVF was thrust into the political spotlight earlier this year when the Alabama Supreme Court found that embryos created via IVF were covered by the state’s wrongful death statute. The ruling caused a panic not only in the state, but across the nation, as IVF clinics threatened to shut down unless they were given complete immunity for negligent acts like the one at issue in the case, in which a hospital patient entered an unsecure area of the facility, removed several cryogenically frozen embryos, and dropped them onto the floor killing them.

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