VP Harris meets privately with Alabama IVF patient in wake of state court ruling

Source: ABC News

March 1, 2024, 4:44 PM


Vice President Kamala Harris met privately at the White House this week with an Alabama woman directly affected by the state Supreme Court's ruling that found frozen embryos to be considered children.

Abbey Crain has been undergoing IVF treatments for nearly two years and was preparing to transfer the frozen embryos when the court's decision was announced. She traveled to the White House on Thursday to meet with Harris, describing the anger she felt after the ruling.

"This is literally, literally taking away my freedom to become a parent," Crain told Harris, according to a video of the meeting reviewed by ABC News. "I know that any person who has waited just one month to get pregnant, they know that feeling -- it's agonizing. It's grief. It is all encompassing and it rules your life," Crain added.

Harris, who recently embarked on a nationwide tour to promote reproductive freedom, said, "the idea that these, mostly men, sitting in these state capitols have decided that it is their right to tell you what is in your best interest about your body and your life. To not understand how much hope, and hard work and physical emotional pain and rollercoasters someone goes through."

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