{"id":1047349,"date":"2024-08-30T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1047349"},"modified":"2024-08-30T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:35:37","slug":"ivf-access-is-at-risk-because-of-maga-republicans-like-jd-vance-and-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/ivf-access-is-at-risk-because-of-maga-republicans-like-jd-vance-and-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"IVF Access Is at Risk Because of MAGA Republicans Like JD Vance and Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to JD Vance <\/em>saying<\/em><\/a> GOP threats to rip away IVF access are \u201ca ridiculous hypothetical\u201d despite voting against protecting access to IVF nationwide, <\/em>DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThreats to IVF access are not \u2018hypothetical,\u2019 they are a horrifying reality for Americans across the country because Donald Trump overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>. JD Vance is just trying to cover for being part of the problem: He voted two months ago to block legislation to protect IVF access nationwide, has celebrated Trump\u2019s ending of Roe<\/em>, and he and Trump have a dangerous Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion nationwide. Trump and Vance share the same extreme and unpopular anti-choice records and have proven they cannot be trusted to fight for Americans\u2019 freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIE: JD Vance said GOP threats to rip away IVF access are \u201ca ridiculous hypothetical.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a> on the possibility of MAGA Republicans ripping away access to IVF: \u201cI think it\u2019s such a ridiculous hypothetical.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REALITY: IVF access is at risk because of Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans like Vance; Vance has spoken out against and voted to block legislation to protect IVF access while celebrating Trump\u2019s ending of <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong> that paved the way for threats to IVF access.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Rampell, Washington Post Opinion<\/a>: \u201cOn CNN w @JohnBerman, Vance claimed that after an Alabama court ruling threatened IVF, the state legislature fixed the problem right away. But they didn’t actually fix the issue. Alabama IVF\/fertility clinics are closing due to ongoing legal liability\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201c[The Alabama Supreme Court ruling on IVF 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

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cSenate Republicans block legislation to codify IVF access\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanity Fair<\/a>: \u201cOn Wednesday, Senate Republicans are expected to object to Tammy Duckworth\u2019s Right to Build Families Act, because, surprise: They don\u2019t actually care about families and aren\u2019t \u2018pro-life.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018It\u2019s idiotic for us to take the bait,\u2019<\/strong> Senator JD Vance told Politico, as though the measure were some kind of political trap. (He also noted that he had not actually read the bill yet.)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cI think that what I really think on \u2013 so first of all, the <\/strong>Dobbs<\/em><\/strong> decision, everybody knows, overruled <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 I think that was the right decision.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump paved the way for GOP threats to IVF access in Alabama, and his extreme anti-choice allies \u2014 including the Project 2025 groups his campaign is already collaborating with \u2014 are pushing to gut IVF access. <\/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

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

Politico<\/a>: \u201cAnti-abortion advocates worked for five decades to topple Roe v. Wade. They\u2019re now laying the groundwork for a yearslong fight to curb in vitro fertilization.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that frozen embryos are children, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have been strategizing how to convince not just GOP officials but evangelicals broadly that they should have serious moral concerns about fertility treatments like IVF and that access to them should be curtailed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201c[Project 2025] is undeniably a Trump-driven operation.<\/strong> The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee \u2014 one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer \u2014 is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Trump and Vance want to ban abortion nationwide and have celebrated cruel abortion bans across the country.<\/strong><\/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

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report\u201d<\/strong><\/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\u2019m looking at all options.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cOhio has a heartbeat bill [banning abortion before many women know they\u2019re pregnant], I think that\u2019s a good bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance said in 2022 he \u2018would like abortion to be illegal nationally\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manu Raju, CNN<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation \u2026 \u2018We can\u2019t give into the idea that the federal Congress has no role in this matter,\u2019 he told us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Backs \u2018National Standard\u2019 for Abortions\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cSenate Republicans block Democratic bill codifying Roe v. Wade abortion protections\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACT: The majority of Americans overwhelmingly reject the Trump-Vance agenda to rip away women\u2019s freedoms and threaten access to IVF. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC News<\/a>: \u201cAmericans continue to support IVF and abortion access\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe vast majority of registered voters, 80 percent, think IVF should be legal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigator Research<\/a>: \u201cLarge majorities say reproductive care like birth control pills and IVF should be made easier to access, including majorities of Republicans.<\/strong> \u2026 Americans across party lines also say access to fertility planning like IVF should be easier to access, including 72 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents, and 53 percent of Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to JD Vance saying GOP threats to rip away IVF access are \u201ca ridiculous hypothetical\u201d despite voting against protecting access to IVF nationwide, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:  \u201cThreats to IVF access are not \u2018hypothetical,\u2019 they are a horrifying reality for Americans across the country because Donald Trump overturned Roe […]<\/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-1047349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIVF Access Is at Risk Because of MAGA Republicans Like JD Vance and Donald Trump - 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\/ivf-access-is-at-risk-because-of-maga-republicans-like-jd-vance-and-donald-trump\/\" \/>\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=\"2024-08-30T16:35:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/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=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/ivf-access-is-at-risk-because-of-maga-republicans-like-jd-vance-and-donald-trump\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/ivf-access-is-at-risk-because-of-maga-republicans-like-jd-vance-and-donald-trump\/\",\"name\":\"IVF Access Is at Risk Because of MAGA Republicans Like JD Vance and Donald Trump - 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