As hospitals across Alabama pause IVF treatments, Nikki Haley is suddenly trying to claim she never said what she said.

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is frantically trying to quell the controversy over comments she made about IVF after an Alabama court’s recent ruling that frozen embryos are children.

“We don’t want fertility treatment to shut down, we don’t want them to stop doing IVF treatment, we don’t want them to stop doing artificial insemination,” Haley said on CNN on Thursday. “But I think this needs to be decided by the people in every state. Don’t take away the rights of these physicians and these parents to have these conversations.”

It was Haley’s second such attempt to explain away her controversial stance on the issue. On Wednesday evening, Haley blurted out a much more gibberish response.

“Well first off all, this is, again, I didn’t say that I agreed with the Alabama ruling. The question that I was asked is ‘do I believe an embryo is a baby?’” Haley said on CNN Wednesday evening. “I do think that if you look in the definition, an embryo is considered an unborn baby. And so yes, I believe, from my stance, that that is.”

But calling an embryo—the stage before the microscopic cellular mass is labeled a fetus—an unborn baby is not exactly correct.

  • FenrirIII
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    6710 months ago

    Have you seen the Republican frontrunner? I wouldn’t trust him with rubber ball

    • Billiam
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      3110 months ago

      A rubber ball? My dude, I wouldn’t even trust Trump with the balls he’s had his entire life.

      • @[email protected]
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        1510 months ago

        Seriously, dude already caused the country a ton of damage with them, considering what his children have done.

    • @Everythingispenguins
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      810 months ago

      No I totally would. A nice colorful rubber ball would be really distracting for him.

      • Hominine
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        410 months ago

        Who would downvote this? I’ll tell you, the same people that hated the ball cages at the grocery store.

        • @Everythingispenguins
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          510 months ago

          No I hate ball cages, balls need to be free to bounce. Just like their wild ball ancestors.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            Personally, I’m thinking about sending my balls to live out the rest of their lives at a nice farm somewhere upstate.