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Senate Republicans block IVF package as Democrats push reproductive rights
Senate Republicans largely opposed a Democratic-led effort to advance legislation to protect access to IVF.
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Senate Republicans largely opposed a Democratic-led effort to advance legislation to protect access to IVF.
"The intentional disposal of an embryo, even a non-viable one that could cause a miscarriage if implanted, which is a common practice in IVF, that disposal became a class a felony."
Illinois U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-8th) urges federal lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation to protect in-vitro fertilization treatment.
This comes after the state’s Supreme Court ruling last month calling a frozen embryo a child. Lawmakers say they want to create a shield from legal liability.
"My girls are my everything. I likely would not have ever been able to have them had I not had access to basic reproductive rights that Americans, up until recently, had been depending on for decades."
Senator Tammy Duckworth is demanding a vote tomorrow on a bill to federally protect fertility treatments. The push comes after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos should be protected as people.
More fallout after Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled that embryos created by in vitro fertilization can be considered children.
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