Sens. Ted Cruz and Katie Britt are introducing a bill to protect IVF access by making it a condition of Medicaid federal funding.
If state legislatures or courts moved to ban IVF, those states would be ineligible to receive Medicaid funding under the bill. The legislation from Cruz and Britt comes as Republicans have tried to distance themselves from a recentThe legislation does not prevent states from setting up “health and safety standards to govern IVF,” but the senators say by placing funding conditions on the practice, it simply “ensures that access to IVF is fully protected by federal law.
In February, Alabama’s top court ruled that frozen embryos are legally children and that the destruction of embryos constitutes a crime under the state’s “wrongful death of a minor” law.in the week following the court’s decision.
“The goal of this bill is to sort of lay that hypocrisy bare] and you know, force Democrats to take a vote on it,” the aide continued.introduced by Sen. Tammy Duckworth , which was introduced in January and would protect IVF access. Many Republicans have pushed back against Duckworth’s bill, arguing its broad language could allow a backdoor into possible abortion protections.
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