The recent court ruling has prompted some clinics to pause
treatments and thrown into question the future of IVF in
the state.
One state lawmaker says his legislation would allow those treatments
to continue.
Senator Tim Nelson's bill draft says a fertilized egg in
vitro is a potential life,
but not considered a human life until implanted in the
uterus.
We have advanced so far in medicine that we're now
we're we're storing everything from embryos to sperm to eggs
to for future use.
And we hadn't really thought about the consequences of that
minutes this time.
And it's, you know, to to figure that out.
Melson is a doctor and currently chairs the Senate Healthcare
Committee.
He says a woman shouldn't be charged for embryos that
end up discarded in the process.
Right now, has that met with today has one child
currently pregnant with the second,
both by IVF. But she has two more waiting in
the freezer for future use that she doesn't think she'll
use now.
She doesn't need to be charged with abandonment or or
or manslaughter or anything because she decides not to use
them.
A similar bill has been filed in the House by
Minority Leader Anthony Daniels.
It says that human embryos outside the uterus are not
considered unborn children under state law.
Other state lawmakers have come out against the court ruling
this is government interference.
Telling women and telling families what they can do with
their bodies.
Representative Philip Ensler says he wants to see lawmakers take
action to update the law.
It's not just some political game.
It's not just partisan politics.
These are our constituents that are very,
very worried and now in limbo.
They don't know what they can and cannot do,
and that's a very scary place to be in.
It's not clear when these bills might be considered in
committee.
Nelson says he expects his colleagues to have questions and
some mixed emotions on the issue.
Reporting in Montgomery, Maddie, Beer Temple,
CBS 42 News.