The Senate will vote for the second time this year on legislation that would establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization.
Several clinics in the state suspended IVF treatments until the GOP-led legislature rushed to enact a law to provide legal protections for the clinics.The Senate will vote for the second time this year on legislation that would establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization — Democrats’ latest election-year attempt to force Republicans into a defensive stance on women’s health issues.
All but two Republicans voted against the Democratic legislation, arguing that the federal government shouldn’t tell states what to do. They said the bill was an unserious effort. But the issue has threatened to become a vulnerability for Republicans as some state laws passed by their own party grant legal personhood not only to fetuses but to any embryos that are destroyed in the IVF process.
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