Hillary Clinton: After Alabama embryo ruling, birth control might be next at risk

Hillary Clinton: After Alabama embryo ruling, birth control might be next at risk

Former 2016 presidential candidate and ex-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton weighed in on Alabama’s embryo ruling that has temporarily halted in vitro fertilization at some clinics, warning that birth control could be at risk next.

“They came for abortion first,” Clinton wrote in a social media post. “Now it’s IVF and next it’ll be birth control.”

Clinton, the former First Lady and Secretary of State who lost her 2016 presidential bid against Donald Trump despite winning the popular vote, said extremists want government control over personal freedom.

She called for a law to restore the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade which made abortion legal nationwide, but was reversed by the court in 2022, making abortion laws a state matter.

“The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions until we codify reproductive freedom as a human right,” she wrote.