{"id":1030122,"date":"2024-03-15T22:46:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T22:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030122"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:56:16","slug":"reality-check-maga-republicans-continue-to-oppose-any-protections-for-ivf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reality-check-maga-republicans-continue-to-oppose-any-protections-for-ivf\/","title":{"rendered":"REALITY CHECK: MAGA Republicans Continue to Oppose Any Protections for IVF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to congressional Republicans\u2019 desperate attempts to avoid talking about their extreme position on in vitro fertilization and Donald Trump\u2019s own deep ties to the anti-IVF movement, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFacts are facts: Donald Trump and his MAGA allies like Mike Johnson have spent years pushing an extreme anti-choice agenda to rip away Americans\u2019 basic rights, and if given the chance, MAGA Republicans will put IVF at risk for every American. Trump used his time in office to elevate extreme anti-choice ideologues who oppose IVF access. Now, Johnson has made it clear that he doesn\u2019t think Congress should protect IVF at all \u2013 instead, he and his far-right allies want to pass a national abortion ban that would also threaten access to IVF for Americans trying to grow or start their families. Voters see right through MAGA Republicans\u2019 desperate excuses to hide their extreme platform that would ban abortion and put basic access to IVF on the chopping block, and they will reject the GOP\u2019s unpopular anti-freedom agenda in November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAGA Mike Johnson and his clown caucus are desperately trying to hold together their faltering coalition of anti-choice activists and openly dismissing the need for any IVF protections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cJohnson dismisses need for IVF legislation as GOP wrestles with reproductive issues\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018It\u2019s not my belief that Congress needs to play a role here,\u2019<\/strong> the Louisiana Republican told reporters at the annual Republican issues conference held at The Greenbrier, a resort in West Virginia. \u2018I think this is being handled by the states.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a remarkable split screen illustrating how the parties are handling the issue heading into November, Vice President Kamala Harris will visit a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota <\/strong>also later Thursday, marking a significant and high-level visit to an abortion provider where she is expected to walk through the facility and speak with staff about reproductive rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEfforts in the Democratically-controlled Senate to protect IVF have also struggled to advance, as a pair of legislative efforts were blocked by Republicans in recent weeks. Democrats tried to pass bills on IVF based on unanimous consent, a process that is faster than usual Senate procedure but allows any one Senate member to object to advancing the legislation, something Republican senators did both times.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump has worked for years with the country\u2019s most extreme, far-right personalities bent on ripping away access to IVF, and elevated some to positions of power.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump Has Deep Ties To Anti-IVF Movement\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike many Republicans, Trump\u2019s words of support don\u2019t align with his past actions on IVF. The current Republican presidential nominee \u2015 who has repeatedly bragged about his role in repealing federal abortion protections \u2015 has deep ties to extreme right-wing organizations that actively oppose IVF.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile in the White House, Trump and his administration praised, appointed and worked with some of the nation\u2019s most extreme thought leaders who believe the IVF process is akin to murder.<\/strong> Trump hosted the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the IVF ruling twice: once during his 2016 campaign and in 2018 at the White House. <\/strong>(This is the same chief justice who recently appeared on a QAnon conspiracist\u2019s show.)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe former president also met multiple times while in office with Lila Rose, president and founder of the anti-abortion group Live Action, who recently said she was \u2018proud\u2019 of the Alabama Supreme Court for acknowledging that \u2018a baby conceived via IVF should have the same legal protections as a baby conceived naturally.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring his time as president, Trump appointed several extreme anti-IVF advocates to positions of power,<\/strong> including Tim Wildmon, who served on the Trump administration\u2019s faith advisory council. Wildmon is the president of the American Family Association, an extreme anti-abortion organization that just last week opposed a Mississippi bill aimed at protecting IVF because it would open the door to \u2018procedures like human cloning, designer babies, three-parent babies and even human-animal hybrids.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe also appointed a woman who spent much of her career attacking assisted reproductive technologies, such as IVF and surrogacy, to a lifetime federal judicial appointment.<\/strong> Sarah Pitlyk, who was deemed \u2018not qualified\u2019 by the American Bar Association, wrote in multiple rulings that states should treat embryos as humans. Trump put Pitlyk on a shortlist of Supreme Court justice picks. The job went to Amy Coney Barrett, who publicly supported an anti-abortion group that believes IVF should be criminalized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump has not endorsed any IVF protections on the national or state level. And despite Republican claims of supporting IVF access, they blocked Democrats\u2019 attempt to pass legislation to safeguard fertility treatments on the federal level.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAbortion rights advocates have warned that the anti-choice movement would come for IVF and fertility treatments once Roe v. Wade<\/em> fell. Currently, more than a dozen states are considering laws that would enshrine fetal personhood, threatening IVF and other fertility treatments.\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 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to congressional Republicans\u2019 desperate attempts to avoid talking about their extreme position on in vitro fertilization and Donald Trump\u2019s own deep ties to the anti-IVF movement, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: \u201cFacts are facts: Donald Trump and his MAGA allies like Mike Johnson have spent years pushing an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nREALITY CHECK: MAGA Republicans Continue to Oppose Any Protections for IVF - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reality-check-maga-republicans-continue-to-oppose-any-protections-for-ivf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-15T22:46:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T19:56:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reality-check-maga-republicans-continue-to-oppose-any-protections-for-ivf\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reality-check-maga-republicans-continue-to-oppose-any-protections-for-ivf\/\",\"name\":\"REALITY CHECK: MAGA Republicans Continue to Oppose Any Protections for IVF - 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