Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Katie Britt, R-Ala., announced Monday that they are introducing a bill that would ensure access to in vitro fertilization by amending the Social Security Act. Under their IVF Protection Act, any state that bans in vitro fertilization no longer will be eligible for federal Medicaid funding.
Cruz and Britt announced in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that their legislation would “protect both life and IVF.”
This is a popular rhetorical stance from the Republican Party as state and federal lawmakers scramble to prop up the fertility industry after the Alabama Supreme Court found a Mobile facility to be at fault for the wrongful deaths of five human embryos.
Is IVF Pro-Life?
Every life deserves to be protected and valued from the moment of fertilization. Circumstances of conception cannot and never will change that.
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