Why The IVF Story Won't Go Away

This week we learned that Alexander Smirnov, a one-time informant who's been arrested for lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden, obtained his phony dirt on the president's son from Russian intelligence officials. The number of pieces mentioning Smirnov that have appeared in The New York Times this week? Six.

We also learned about Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager who was assaulted by fellow students in a high school bathroom in Oklahoma, and who died the next day. The number of Times pieces mentioning Benedict this week? Four.

And we saw an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that defined embryos and blastocysts as children for the purposes of state law, a decision that threatens to make in vitro fertilization unavailable in the state. Times pieces referring to the IVF ruling and its ramifications this week? Twenty-four.

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