House Republicans scrambling to find political cover on in vitro fertilization are landing on mismatched policy responses, as Democrats ramp up campaign attacks claiming the GOP opposes access to fertility treatments.
Vulnerable Republicans are backing broad federal protections for IVF, narrower fixes, or no national response at all, just weeks after an Alabama state court ruled that frozen embryos are children. Even though the state legislature passed a law protecting clinics from criminal charges so fertility providers would be able to perform the procedures, the case established that IVF could be challenged in a post-Roe v. Wade US.
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