Tennessee to become first state in South to protect access to IVF, birth control

Tennessee to become first state in South to protect access to IVF, birth control

Embryologist Ric Ross holds a dish with human embryos at the La Jolla IVF Clinic in California. Tennessee is poised to become the first, and only, southern state to codify protections for IVF and birth control into law. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images) In a legislative session dominated by the GOP supermajority’s conservative agenda, Tennessee lawmakers this spring took the unusual, bipartisan step of protecting certain reproductive rights. Beginni…