Letter: Is you is or is you ain't a baby-an anti-choice dilemma

In the 1970s when I first became involved in the pro-choice abortion issue, we imagined all sorts of scenarios if the U.S. or states were to ever assign personhood to fertilized eggs. (Every miscarriage scrutinized and requiring a death certificate?) Now some of these scenarios have become a reality, with laws banning abortions after six weeks, for example. Yet even in our wildest dreams, I don't know of anyone who envisioned that embryos used for IVF would be defined as children. And Republicans in the U.S. House so far rhave refused to guarantee the rights of families seeking IVF. If the anti-choice movement, flush with victory after the fall of Roe v. Wade, wishes to take their arguments to what they see as a "logical" conclusion, and promote personhood for IVF embryos, calling themselves pro-family will be an even more laughable misnomer than it has in the past.