Alabama junior Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican who used to coach the Auburn Tigers, struggled to answer questions Thursday about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that seemingly outlawed in vitro fertilization treatment.
“Yeah, I was all for it,” Tuberville initially told NBC News while attending the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“We need to have more kids. We need to have an opportunity to do that, and I thought this was the right thing to do,” Tuberville said, according to NBC News.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through “IVF” treatment were considered children under state law.
NBC News, however, pressed Tuberville on his logic considering that IVF treatment is undergone by people trying to have more children.
“Well, that’s, that’s for another conversation. I think the big thing is right now, you protect — you go back to the situation and try to work it out to where it’s best for everybody. I mean, that’s what — that’s what the whole abortion issue is about,” he said.
Tuberville then retreated to the ignorance of the Court’s specific ruling.
“It’s about the same direction, but I agree, but people need to have access. People need to have — we need more kids, we need the people to have the opportunity to have kids,” he said.
[NBC News]
