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Professor Boys Interviewed on IVF Treatments in Wake of Supreme Court Leak
05/26/2022
McKinney Law Adjunct Professor Stephanie K. Boys, J.D., M.S.W., Ph.D., is an associate professor of social work at IU who published a 2019 article about implications for in vitro fertilization (IVF) practices if Roe v. Wade was overturned.
In May, that article from the IUPUI journal, Advances in Social Work, caught the attention of the Washington Post, in the wake of a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft decision.
In an interview, Boys said that the absence of a constitutionally protected right to abortion might create challenges for a number of accepted practices in the U.S. fertility industry, such as screening embryos for genetic diseases, as well as “selective reduction,” which is used to terminate one or more embryos when a woman or other pregnant individual is carrying multiples that might threaten their health.
Boys told the Post that she thought of her analysis as a theoretical exercise. “To be honest,” Boys said, “I really didn’t see this happening in real life.”
She was also interviewed by the news website Grid regarding the leak.
Boys regularly teaches two classes as an adjunct at IU McKinney: Reproductive Technologies Law and Bioethics, and Law and Poverty.
