{"id":1029836,"date":"2024-02-28T22:20:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1029836"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:48:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T20:48:06","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8breaking-senate-republicans-block-basic-protections-for-ivf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8breaking-senate-republicans-block-basic-protections-for-ivf\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: Senate Republicans Block Basic Protections for IVF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to extreme MAGA Republicans blocking legislation to ensure access to IVF, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSenate Republicans have no interest in protecting access to IVF \u2014 they\u2019re the ones who put it at risk after backing Donald Trump\u2019s ploy to overturn Roe v. Wade<\/em>. By blocking these critical protections, the GOP is making it clear they will always stand with their extreme anti-choice agenda over Americans\u2019 basic rights. Regardless of whatever weak talking points or poor excuses Republicans try to use, Trump and his MAGA allies\u2019 actions in Congress show they will keep pushing an unpopular and cruel agenda to rip away our freedoms.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Senate Republicans blocked basic protections for IVF, 125 House Republicans \u2013 including Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson \u2013 supported the Life at Conception Act, which DOES NOT include any exceptions for IVF treatment. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business Insider<\/a>: \u201cMost House Republicans have cosponsored a bill declaring that life begins from the moment of conception, a position under increased scrutiny after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are \u2018unborn children.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis Congress, 125 House Republicans \u2014 including Speaker Mike Johnson \u2014 have cosponsored the \u2018Life at Conception Act,\u2019<\/strong> which states that the term \u2018human being\u2019 includes \u2018all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bill does not include any exception for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a reproductive treatment that allows mothers to fertilize several eggs outside the womb in order to increase the chances of a viable pregnancy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cBut with the landmark Roe ruling protecting those rights gone, efforts by conservative lawmakers and judges to advance fetal personhood bills pose a real threat to some fertility treatments, including IVF<\/strong>, reproductive rights advocates say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cDozens of congressional Republicans have signed onto so-called personhood legislation with no carve-out for embryos in clinics, which, if enacted, would upend how the procedure is practiced in the United States.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump made possible the Alabama Supreme Court decision that is stopping IVF treatment \u2013 and he is still bragging about his role in overturning <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong> and demanding credit for extreme abortion bans across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cHow the reversal of Roe v. Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201c[The Alabama ruling was] made possible by the Supreme Court\u2019s overturning of Roe v. Wade in its 2022 Dobbs decision, which was a result of Mr. Trump\u2019s appointment of three justices.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cFor 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a> terminated, and I did it, and I\u2019m proud to have done it. \u2026 Nobody else was going to get that done but me,<\/strong> and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cAfter 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong>, much to the \u2018shock\u2019 of everyone \u2026 Without me there would be no 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks, or whatever is finally agreed to.<\/strong> Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing. Thank you President TRUMP!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Claims Credit for All Abortion Bans\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business Insider<\/a>: \u201cTrump boasts he’s ‘proud’ about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade, the issue that has become ballot-box poison for Republicans\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Says He\u2019s \u2018Proud\u2019 to Have \u2018Terminated\u2019 Abortion Rights\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump campaign radio ad<\/a>: \u201cAnd Trump nominated conservative judges, leading to Roe v. Wade<\/em> being overturned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FWIW<\/a>: \u201cThis week, we found more evidence that the Trump campaign has no interest in \u2018moderating\u2019 on the issue of abortion. On Monday, his team began running new Facebook video ads targeting voters in Iowa, referring to Trump as \u2018THE MOST Pro-Life President in history.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to extreme MAGA Republicans blocking legislation to ensure access to IVF, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cSenate Republicans have no interest in protecting access to IVF \u2014 they\u2019re the ones who put it at risk after backing Donald Trump\u2019s ploy to overturn Roe v. Wade. 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