Democratic senators are trying to legally protect the right to use in vitro fertilization after the fall of Roe v. Wade not only ended the constitutional right to abortion but also threw into question the fate of IVF.
According to the CDC, IVF is responsible for about 84,000 babies annually, including those born to military families who wanted to delay pregnancy during deployments or people undergoing cancer treatments.: Some state-level abortion bans or proposals contain no exceptions for IVF, including the process by which eggs are harvested and then fertilized in a laboratory.
She said comments from leading anti-abortion groups in Texas demonstrate that agenda in the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. "There is this outright push to basically get rid of IVF, just as there is a push to get rid of contraception," said Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois. "People thought that the Dobbs decision was about abortion. It's about your privacy rights to bodily autonomy."Duckworth conceived two daughters via IVF, and made history in 2018 when she became the first sitting U.S. senator to, then-10-day-old Maile Pearl.
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