What’s the difference between the IVF bills Senate Democrats and Republicans keep fighting about?What’s the difference between the IVF bills Senate Democrats and Republicans keep fighting about?
By
Emily Hallas
September 18, 2024 8:06 pm
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For the second time in about three months, Republican and Democratic senators sparred over a set of in vitro fertilization bills in the nation’s capital.
Republicans blocked Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-IL) Right to IVF Act on the same day Democrats blocked a GOP bill titled the IVF Protection Act.
Both bills claim to protect access to fertility treatment for women struggling to have children. So why can neither seem to pass?
Duckworth’s IVF legislation comprises several bills, including the Access to Family Building Act. It would make IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies a statutory right, preempting state laws and practices regarding the matter.
Conservatives are fearful that her legislation would remove legal and ethical regulations that oversee the IVF industry and reproductive technologies. They argue Duckworth’s framework would legalize embryo cloning, gene editing, and “designer babies.”
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