Frozen Embryos Created Through IVF Are Babies, Says Nikki Haley
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As governor, she signed a bill that banned abortion at 20 weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest.
Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she considers frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization "babies," siding with the Alabama Supreme Court on an issue that resonates with conservative voters three days before South Carolina's primary.
"Embryos, to me, are babies," Haley told NBC News in an interview broadcast Wednesday. In an appearance on the CNN program "King Charles" on Wednesday night, she tempered those remarks.
Justices on the state's top court last week recognized unimplanted human embryos as children, ruling that a state law allowing parents to recover punitive damages for their children's deaths includes the parents of unborn children, regardless of ability to survive outside the womb. The decision is seen as making it more difficult for people to conceive via fertility treatments.
