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IVF works by using a combination of medicines and surgical procedures to help sperm fertilize an egg. (Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez / Getty Images)

BY JILL FILIPOVIC | The availability of in-vitro fertilization in Alabama may now be in question after the state’s Supreme Court ruled that embryos kept in clinic freezers are considered persons under the law, and protected by the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. It’s a shocking and jarring decision that radically extends the bounds of legal personhood, tosses any claims to originalism aside, and seems primed to make a variety of fertility treatments either extremely costly for patients, or extremely legally risky for clinicians.

IVF is, unfortunately, not safe from the anti-abortion movement. Many of the movement’s leaders have indicated that they would like to outlaw it, and while right now they have bigger fish to fry, abortion opponents have never stopped at simply (“simply”) banning abortion. They want full control over reproduction, and over women specifically. And Alabama just put us all one step closer to their ultimate goal.

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Students protest on Aug. 30, 2023 in Katy, Texas, against a new Katy ISD policy that requires parents to be told if students identify as transgender or nonbinary. (Brett Coomer / Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

BY ORION RUMMLER and KATE SOSIN | The 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey shows that trans people face steep economic and health disparities while anti-trans state laws have caused thousands to flee their homes.

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BY KARLA J. STRAND | Each month, we provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.

And what a fantastic time for new books. Peruse this list of 31 and let me know what you’re reading!  

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Listen to United Bodies—a new podcast about the lived experience of health, from Ms. Studios, on Apple Podcasts + Spotify. 

Trauma is everywhere we look. But when we are able to reclaim our own stories, we can find a power greater than the power we lost. Journalist and radio producer Stephanie Foo formerly of This American Life and Snap Judgment, joins us to break down her new book What My Bones Know and the radical power available when we reclaim our stories.

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