IVF protections headed toward Senate vote, aiming to establish in vitro fertilization as a nationwide right
On Tuesday, the US Senate will consider a bill that seeks to include IVF in the list of healthcare options provided by the state across the country. This time there are chances that the bill will fail again because after Republicans contemptuously put down the measure in June. This is the latest of the Democrats’ efforts to make women’s health issues more prominent before Vice President Kamala Harris competes with former President Donald Trump in the race for 2024 presidential elections.
The Democrats are hoping to see their counterparts in reproductive health—the Republicans. The IVF law was a result of the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that it is possible to classify frozen embryos as children. Therefore, some of the clinics decided to suspend the offer of IVF services until the government had established the laws to protect the practices.
The assumption of the measure is to prohibit federal courts from making decisions like that of Alabama by protecting the IVF practice at a federal level. Sen. Duckworth of Illinois, a proponent of the bill, along with some Democrats, issued a chilling warning that one day the state’s court would be doing what has never been done, namely, dismantling the legislation on the IVF as it did Roe v. Wade in 2022.
As stated by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, fast becoming controversial in January, ‘the hard right has set its sights on a new target,’ Monday.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a mother of two, helped her spouse get IVF in order to have her kids.
As soon as she registered the very first vote against the measure on this divisive House Bill, she screamed at her fellow Republicans, “How dare you do that.”
Even though they have a belief in the virtues of IVF, the majority of Republicans will overlook the federal law on the grounds of states’ rights.
Senators Ted Cruz and Katie Britt are two of the Republicans who, more recently, have thought media out loud that they would cut funding for states whose policy prohibits an IVF treatment.
Sen. Rick Scott pledged, as the father of a daughter now in the process of in vitro fertilization, that more options in health savings accounts for families will be introduced so that the procedure of IVF becomes cheaper.
The Democrats have maintained their line that the proposals forwarded by the Republicans are very shallow and not enough.
In an attempt to make an image that he was championing IVF at this time, Trump had to condemn the order of the Court of Alabama’s ruling that was in favor of a certain negative reaction: “very negative.”
Without elaborating, Trump claimed last month that he would require insurance companies or the government to pay for this basic procedure.
Within this delicate infrastructure, Trump is boxed on the issue of IVF—totally stuck between moderate Republicans who embrace it and conservatives who don’t.
In a poll by CBS News/YouGov conducted in March, more than 85 % of the American respondents said that they believed that sexual intercourse is something that should be allowed.
One of the critical issues that have been raised by the Harris campaign is that Trump is deeply anti-IVF and progressive women’s reproductive rights throughout his life.
“Women who need fertility are prevented from having a child because of Donald Trump, as they fear that their embryos will be confiscated by the state. Harris-Walz 2024 Spokesman Sarafina Chitika called it “a nightmare out from the Trump Project 2025 program”. “After he is voted for this November, if at all it will be any better, it will only get worse.
Last month, Harris’s campaign held a press conference entitled “Donald Trump’s threat to reproductive choices, including IVF.”
This trigger occurred again during the sizzling presidential debate held a week ago.
Trump has had to explain himself, especially during the abortion discussions, on comments he had made on issues pertaining to reproduction, such as IVF and abortion practices.
Though the issue of over abortion politically is of concern to his supporters, there is also pressure coming from the conservatives of Trump who wants him to harden his position on issues of reproduction such as IVF.”
For months, Albert Mohler, a noted conservative Christian politician and chairman of the Southern Baptists, made fears earlier this month that Trump’s prior views on abortion and IVF may lead evangelicals to support him less.
