Doctors, senators question personhood bill’s effects
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The Jamestown Sun: Two Fargo fertility doctors said that if the personhood bill passes into law, it could curtail their practice and prevent other doctors from moving to the state. The fertility doctors painted a picture of a practice in North Dakota in which state government keeps watch over what happens with human fertilized eggs. "If House Bill 1572 is passed, who will be responsible for the abnormal embryos that (would then) have personhood status?" Dahl asked. They are currently discarded. "Would there be a government representative present at every IVF procedure to confirm that the eggs fertilized abnormally?" Dahl asked. She and Christensen questioned what the state would demand done with normal hu-man embryos left over from in vitro fertilization. Most are now frozen and responsibility for their fate left to the parents.
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