It’s part of a push by Democrats to highlight the electoral contrast over reproductive rights. Before the vote, GOP senators said they favor legal IVF but prefer a narrower bill.
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic-led bill Thursday to codify broad federal protections for in vitro fertilization in the midst of a growing partisan clash over reproductive rights in the United States.
The vote was 48-47, with just two Republicans voting for it: Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine. Others in the GOP said the legislation went too far, instead signing on to a scaled-back version that Democrats said was ineffectual.
The Right To IVF Act was brought up for a vote by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to put the GOP in a political predicament less than five months before the 2024 elections. Democrats say the conservative-led Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to eliminate federal abortion rights means that access to contraception and IVF are also at risk.
Reminds me of that poem:
_First they came for abortion, and I did not speak out— Because I was not need an abortion.
Then they came for IVF, and I did not speak out— Because I did not need IVF.
Then they came for the Stork—and there was no one left to speak for him._
In all seriousness though, fuck this shit. This is purely religious driven bullshit. Separation of church and state.
Goes beyond religion at this point it is all about controlling women and turning them into birthing factorys.
I think it’s just cruelty and some perverted sense of constructionism honestly.
If it were about forcing birth, they’d be in favor of forcing all forms of IVF to be legal. Probably in favor of deregulating it and removing any form of sane protections.
it is my understanding religious engagement is declining in the US, however it seems that religious laws are increasing. Why aren’t people voting their conscience?
I think that’s sort of the point. Sort of a two pronged approach…
On one hand…The US Oligarchs are running out of cheap labor. This is literally their solution. Force a ban on abortions and contraceptives and you’ll see a spike of pregnancies, the unwanted children will hinder their unready families from better opportunities, and pretty much force them to work lower paid and hourly positions.
On the other hand, by forcing more US citizens to have kids, you’ll have cheap labor, allowing you to ban “illegal immigrants”.