Dem Sen Duckworth looks to put Republicans on record with forced IVF vote

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., will try to power a vote Wednesday on her invoice to shield in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures within the wake of Alabama’s controversial Supreme Court ruling, which triggered an abrupt finish to some fertility procedures within the state. 

She plans to request unanimous consent from her fellow senators to carry a vote on her invoice, co-sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., to the ground. 

Duckworth’s anticipated transfer is a bid to power Republicans to make their stance clear as to whether or not they consider in protections for IVF, as a number of GOP senators scrambled to make clear their help for the process following nationwide backlash to the Alabama choice. The court docket’s ruling confronted important scrutiny after it decided that embryos created through the IVF course of ought to be thought of kids beneath state regulation. 

Several Republicans, together with Sens. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have since addressed the problem, saying they again the fertility methodology.

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth speaks a few invoice to set up federal protections for IVF as Sen. Patty Murray listens throughout a press occasion on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (Getty Images)

“I didn’t think it was needed until now,” Romney informed Politico of Duckworth’s invoice. 

“We may need to take a look at what’s made available. I understand that states are looking at their laws as well. I would have several fewer grandkids if we didn’t have IVF,” he mentioned Monday. 

Hawley went even additional, stating, “I think IVF ought to be protected in law as it is in my state,” USA Today reported. The Missouri Republican additionally famous a distinction between the problems of abortion and IVF.

Sen. Josh Hawley (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc through Getty Images)

While some Republicans professed help for the strategy however not explicitly the invoice in query, the workplace of Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., indicated he backs his Democratic colleague’s measure. 

Despite some help from Republicans for IVF, and doubtlessly for Duckworth’s invoice, aides to a number of GOP senators indicated it’s seemingly somebody will object. 

Blackburn, who believes IVF ought to be protected, mentioned in an announcement, “Democrats are using fear tactics and the media to scare voters.” 

Sen. Marsha Blackburn questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen throughout a Senate Finance Committee listening to on March 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Following the Alabama ruling, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Executive Director Jason Thielman launched a memo urging candidates to again IVF, signaling issues that the choice might be an issue for weak Republicans. 

Duckworth and several other different Democratic senators are set to make ground speeches at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday forward of the unanimous consent request.