Schumer announces Senate to vote on IVF bill a second time Tuesday
By
Samantha-Jo Roth
September 15, 2024 8:10 pm
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced a Tuesday vote on an in vitro fertilization bill that resembles a proposal from former President Donald Trump in a letter on Sunday, a strategy to put Republicans on defense over reproductive politics ahead of the election.
In a Dear Colleague letter, the New York senator unveiled his plans to hold a secondary vote on a bill Senate Democrats offered up earlier this summer in an attempt to capitalize on recent comments from Trump, who has called for mandating free access to IVF.
https://twitter.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/1835422646390943790“In June, after the Alabama Supreme Court jeopardized access to IVF for millions of women and couples, we held a vote on this same legislation, and almost every single Senate Republican voted against even beginning debate on the issue,” Schumer wrote in the letter.
“As our national debate on reproductive rights has continued to unfold, we have seen the Republican Party’s nominee for president claim to be ‘a leader in fertilization’ and come out in support of expanding access to IVF by requiring insurance companies to cover IVF treatment — a key provision included in the Right to IVF Act. So, we are going to give our Republican colleagues another chance to show the American people where they stand,” he added.
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