Schumer to force GOP vote on IVF
by Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, Joseph Choi and Nathaniel Weixel - 09/12/24 6:17 PM ET
Schumer to force GOP vote on IVF access
The Senate majority leader announced plans Thursday to bring a Democratic IVF access bill back up for a vote after Republicans successfully blocked it earlier this year.
Congress sank two competing IVF access bills earlier this year: the Democrat-backed Right to IVF Act and the Republican-sponsored IVF Protection Act.
“The Senate will vote once again to take up the very same bill we voted on earlier this summer, establishing a nationwide right to IVF and making it easier for people to access this critical treatment,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the Senate floor.
“Republicans can’t claim to be profamily on one hand, only to block pro-family policies like federal protections for IVF and the child tax credit. But that’s what they did this summer, and I hope we get a different outcome when we vote for a second time,” he added.
Schumer’s announcement comes just days after former President Trump declared in his debate with Vice President Harris that he has been “a leader on IVF.”
Trump was critical of the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that put IVF on the national stage earlier this year and in August called for universal coverage of the treatments.
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