Republicans Are Attacking IVF With a Slew of Proposed State Laws

At a Republican retreat in West Virginia last week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said his party would “protect and preserve” access to IVF. Yet three months prior, he championed a federal law that would’ve deemed a fertilized egg a person, effectively banning the practice.

The backpedaling came in response to national furor over an Alabama case that prompted fertility clinics in the state to halt IVF procedures.

“It’s not my belief that Congress needs to play a role here,” Johnson, who opposes abortion, said at the retreat. “I think it is being handled by the states.”

Indeed, there’s a ...