House Republicans and GOP candidates are displeased with the IVF ruling handed down by the Alabama Supreme Court a week ago.
on the backs of Republicans who are heading into a critical general election this November, as the embryo decision risks alienating swing voters and highlights another manner in which the striking down of Statistically, many GOP voters who have suffered from the inability to conceive naturally have undergone IVF treatments, so seeing that choice taken from them could do consequential damage to independent and centrist Republican voters.
In the week following the ruling, GOP legislators, on the whole, were relatively silent, but now Republican lawmakers and candidates are looking to distance themselves from the ruling. David McCormick, Republican primary candidate for Pennsylvania Senate, blasted the court’s decision on Friday morning.
“IVF is a ray of hope for millions of Americans seeking the blessing of children,” McCormick said in a post on X. “I oppose any effort to restrict it.” said the court “correctly assessed the law” but said the state’s law needs to be rewritten for the sake of the party. “I believe the Alabama law needs to change because the Republican Party cannot be the party against family formation,” he said in an“Something is totally wrong,” the congressman continued. “The people who want to have a family should have the government and the law on their side. And the notion that discarded embryos in an IVF somehow turn these people, who want children and want families and want the American dream, into criminals is really wrong.
“I’m troubled by and oppose the ruling,” Rep. Marc Molinaro told the outlet. “I support women and families who choose IVF to bring life into this world. They have my love and respect.”
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