{"id":1030076,"date":"2024-03-13T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030076"},"modified":"2024-05-10T19:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:55:14","slug":"icymi-senate-republicans-again-blocked-basic-protections-for-ivf-this-time-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-senate-republicans-again-blocked-basic-protections-for-ivf-this-time-for-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Senate Republicans AGAIN Blocked Basic Protections for IVF \u2013 This Time for Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to MAGA Republicans <\/em>yet again blocking<\/em><\/a> legislation to protect access to IVF, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnti-freedom Republicans just proved once again that they will stop at nothing to block IVF protections \u2013 even for our nation\u2019s veterans and service members. Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA allies in Congress only care about pushing their cruel anti-freedom agenda, including threatening IVF access and banning abortion nationwide. Voters will remember how Republicans blocked any and all attempts to safeguard our basic rights, and will make them pay the price for their anti-choice extremism this November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Republicans AGAIN blocked basic protections for IVF.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alanna Vagianos, HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cJust now: Senate Republicans block a bill to protect IVF & other fertility services for veterans & service members.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Republicans blocked basic protections for IVF just weeks ago in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court\u2019s decision that threatened countless families\u2019 access to IVF.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans block Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cSenate Republicans blocked an effort Wednesday to pass legislation that would federally protect access to in vitro fertilization (IVF).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

125 House Republicans \u2013 including Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson \u2013 have supported the Life at Conception Act, which could rip away IVF access from families nationwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans Struggle to Explain Away Their Hypocrisy on IVF\u201d<\/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 ruling that threatened IVF treatment \u2013 and Trump is still bragging about his role in overturning <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong> while 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>: \u201cI was able to kill <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong>\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

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\n\n\n

Trump campaign radio ad<\/a>: \u201cTrump nominated conservative judges, leading to Roe v. Wade<\/em> being overturned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump also supports a national abortion ban and has an extreme anti-abortion record. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Floats National Abortion Ban After Claiming He\u2019s \u2018On the Side of Women\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cThere of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it\u2019s very important.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump on if he would sign a six-week national abortion ban<\/a>: \u201cI’m looking at all options.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cWe’ll pick something that’s going to be very, very good for pro-life\u2026 I\u2019m going to be in there pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cThere has to be some form of punishment [for women who have abortions].\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration formally backed a House bill Monday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks\u2026<\/strong> It would make it a crime to perform or attempt an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with the possibility of a fine, up to five years in prison or both.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extreme MAGA anti-abortion groups are pushing Republicans to restrict IVF access \u2013 and their ultimate goal is completely banning IVF nationwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: <\/strong>\u201cAs many politicians raced in recent weeks to get to the right side of public opinion on IVF, some of the country\u2019s biggest and most influential anti-abortion groups are pushing back.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn Congress, anti-abortion groups are vowing to penalize GOP members if they support pro-IVF bills they believe go too far. \u2026 They want lawmakers to seize the moment created by the Alabama decision to impose restrictions on the way IVF is commonly practiced in the U.S.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome Republicans lawmakers are heeding the anti-abortion movement\u2019s concerns. <\/strong>In Iowa, House GOP lawmakers voted last week to advance legislation that would give embryos and fetuses personhood rights, despite concerns from Democrats and others that the legislation would hamper IVF access. And GOP lawmakers in Tennessee recently rejected legislation proposed by their Democratic colleagues to protect IVF access, saying that such legislation was unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven the Alabama Legislature watered down its original proposal, which would have carved out embryos created during the IVF process but not implanted into the uterus from the definition of \u2018human life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the debate rages at the state and national levels, Perkins and other anti-abortion leaders say they\u2019re hopeful, despite recent setbacks, that the conversation ignited by the Alabama ruling will eventually lead to more restrictions on IVF.\u201d<\/strong>The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cThe People Rooting for the End of IVF\u201d
\u201cThose in the wider anti-abortion movement who oppose IVF are feeling hopeful. Whatever the outcome in Alabama, the situation has yanked the issue \u2018into the public consciousness\u2019 nationwide, Aaron Kheriaty, a fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, told me. \u2026 In his ideal world, the anti-abortion movement would make ending IVF its new goal\u2014the next frontier in a post-Roe society.<\/strong> \u2026 He and his allies see the Alabama ruling as a chance to start a national conversation about the morality of IVF\u2014even if, at first, Americans don\u2019t want to listen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to MAGA Republicans yet again blocking legislation to protect access to IVF, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cAnti-freedom Republicans just proved once again that they will stop at nothing to block IVF protections \u2013 even for our nation\u2019s veterans and service members. 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