Anthony Jose Sirven is a lawyer in South Florida, where he litigates at both the trial and appellate levels. Outside of his commercial practice, Anthony has written articles on constitutional law that have been published by the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Florida Law Review, and Texas Review of Law & Politics (forthcoming), along with essays that have appeared on Public Discourse and First Things.
If Congress were to pass laws endorsing, protecting, or expanding access to IVF, it would, to my knowledge, be the first time federal law has spoken on the nature of prenatal personhood - at least since Roe. And like Roe, it would once more require us all to accept the premise that unborn (and even certain classes of born) children are not "persons in the whole sense": a sharp turn in the wrong direction.
Date posted: 2025-04-18