In response to reporting that Infirmary Health, one of the main IVF treatment providers in Alabama, is permanently ending their IVF services, DNC spokesperson Jackie Bush released the following statement.
“Over and over again, Americans are witnessing the devastating impacts of Donald Trump paving the way for Roe v. Wade to be overturned as he and his MAGA allies intervene in the most personal decisions a family could make, and now, it’s become even harder for Alabama women to grow their families. Thanks to Trump, women throughout the country are already seeing their freedoms ripped away while Trump plots to ban abortion nationwide. This November, voters will head to the polls knowing that President Biden and Vice President Harris are the only choice in this election to safeguard their freedoms.”
GOP attacks on IVF, like the ones that shuttered access to IVF treatments in Alabama, are only possible because Donald Trump proudly paved the way for Roe v. Wade to be overturned.
CNN: “How the reversal of Roe v. Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children”
New York Times: “[The Alabama ruling was] made possible by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in its 2022 Dobbs decision, which was a result of Mr. Trump’s appointment of three justices.”
Trump: “For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I’m proud to have done it. … Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle.”
Trump: “I was able to kill Roe v. Wade… Without me there would be no 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks, or whatever is finally agreed to. Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing. Thank you President TRUMP!!!”
Rolling Stone: “Trump Claims Credit for All Abortion Bans”
Business Insider: “Trump boasts he’s ‘proud’ about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade, the issue that has become ballot-box poison for Republicans”
Rolling Stone: “Trump Says He’s ‘Proud’ to Have ‘Terminated’ Abortion Rights”
FWIW: “This week, we found more evidence that the Trump campaign has no interest in ‘moderating’ on the issue of abortion. On Monday, his team began running new Facebook video ads targeting voters in Iowa, referring to Trump as ‘THE MOST Pro-Life President in history.’”
Trump campaign radio ad: “Trump nominated conservative judges, leading to Roe v. Wade being overturned.”
While families in Alabama and throughout the country are facing threats to IVF access, Trump’s MAGA minions in Congress are refusing to protect it.
Associated Press: “Republicans block Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments”
The Hill: “Senate Republicans blocked an effort Wednesday to pass legislation that would federally protect access to in vitro fertilization (IVF).”
CNN: “Johnson dismisses need for IVF legislation as GOP wrestles with reproductive issues”
“‘It’s not my belief that Congress needs to play a role here,’ the Louisiana Republican told reporters at the annual Republican issues conference held at The Greenbrier, a resort in West Virginia. ‘I think this is being handled by the states.’”
“In a remarkable split screen illustrating how the parties are handling the issue heading into November, Vice President Kamala Harris will visit a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota also later Thursday, marking a significant and high-level visit to an abortion provider where she is expected to walk through the facility and speak with staff about reproductive rights.”
“Efforts in the Democratically-controlled Senate to protect IVF have also struggled to advance, as a pair of legislative efforts were blocked by Republicans in recent weeks. Democrats tried to pass bills on IVF based on unanimous consent, a process that is faster than usual Senate procedure but allows any one Senate member to object to advancing the legislation, something Republican senators did both times.”
Over 100 House Republicans — including five members of Alabama’s Republican delegation — co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act, which could rip away access to IVF treatment.
Daily Beast: “Republicans Struggle to Explain Away Their Hypocrisy on IVF”
Business Insider: “Most House Republicans have cosponsored a bill declaring that life begins from the moment of conception, a position under increased scrutiny after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are ‘unborn children.’
“This Congress, 125 House Republicans — including Speaker Mike Johnson — have cosponsored the ‘Life at Conception Act,’ which states that the term ‘human being’ includes ‘all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.’
“The bill does not include any exception for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a reproductive treatment that allows mothers to fertilize several eggs outside the womb in order to increase the chances of a viable pregnancy.”
NBC News: “But with the landmark Roe ruling protecting those rights gone, efforts by conservative lawmakers and judges to advance fetal personhood bills pose a real threat to some fertility treatments, including IVF, reproductive rights advocates say.”
Politico: “Dozens of congressional Republicans have signed onto so-called personhood legislation with no carve-out for embryos in clinics, which, if enacted, would upend how the procedure is practiced in the United States.”
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