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, Giffords and her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly , detailed their experience going through IVF treatment, which was abruptly cut short after Giffords was a victim of gun violence. Giffords was shot in the head at a “Congress on Your Corner” event at a grocery store in her district near Tucson, Arizona. Seventeen others were also shot, including six people who died as a result.
This is our IVF story. Thirteen years ago, our dream of having a child was stolen from us after I was shot.“With everything the shooting forced us to leave behind, we weren’t ready to let go of our dream of having a child together. But eventually, we had to. That loss was its own agony,” Kelly and Giffords wrote., which created chaos on the national level about reproductive rights.
“Our dream of having a child together was taken away by a gunman. The dreams of Americans to have a child together could be taken away by politicians,” Kelly and Giffords continued.
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