Senate Democrats to unveil package to protect IVF as party makes reproductive rights push this month
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Washington — A group of Senate Democrats is set to unveil a new package to protect access to IVF on Monday, as the party makes a push around reproductive rights this month — two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
An Alabama high court decision earlier this year brought attention to IVF as a possible new front in the fight over reproductive rights in the U.S. when the court deemed that embryos are children under state law and prompted providers to halt fertility treatments. Though the state legislature moved to protect access to the procedure, Democrats quickly put the blame on Republicans as the development raised concern about similar moves elsewhere.
"In the nearly two years since the Supreme Court threw out Roe v. Wade, our nation has seen the horrific consequences of Republicans' anti-science, anti-woman crusade that has put IVF at risk for millions of Americans who rely on it to start or grow their family," Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat who is among the group leading the push on the package, said in a statement to CBS News.
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