Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) mentioned that Democrats “use” in vitro fertilization (IVF) accessibility issues “as a scare tactic” in an interview Sunday.
“Senator Ted Cruz and I led a letter with all 49 Republican senators signing on saying they strongly support nationwide access to IVF,” Britt informed “Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Bream. “And the truth is, Democrats continue to use this issue as a scare tactic, because IVF is legal and accessible in all 50 states. And President Trump has made it perfectly clear that he’ll continue to make sure that that’s the case.”
Trump mentioned late final month that his administration would shield IVF accessibility and have both the federal government or insurance coverage firms pay for the remedy if he will get again into the White Home.
“We are going to be — under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment,” Trump mentioned in an NBC Information interview, additionally including that being relevant to “all Americans who get it; all Americans who need it.”
Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign criticized the promise by the previous president to pay for IVF, beforehand stating it was “one of his most brazen lies yet.”
“Donald Trump’s own platform could effectively ban IVF and abortion nationwide. Trump lies as much if not more than he breathes, but voters aren’t stupid. Because Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, IVF is already under attack and women’s freedoms have been ripped away in states across the country,” Harris-Walz marketing campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika mentioned in a previous assertion.
Fears about IVF accessibility gained prominence within the final 12 months, particularly within the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court docket ruling that frozen embryos, in addition to fertilized eggs, are thought of individuals below the regulation and that those that destroy them may be held accountable for dying. Nevertheless, lawmakers speedily pushed by laws on civil and felony legal responsibility for IVF suppliers, permitting IVF companies, lots of which had been halted, to renew.
“So you voted against a measure, though, that was offered up by Democrats on IVF in the Senate there,” Bream mentioned throughout Britt’s “Fox News Sunday” look. “And they continue to point to that to say Republicans aren’t supportive of protecting IVF. Why did you vote no?”
Britt responded by stating that “instead of putting” laws together with “funding bills on the floor,” Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “chose to put an IVF bill on the floor for a show vote.”
“That bill extended into human cloning,” Britt added.
The Hill has reached out to the Democratic Nationwide Committee and Schumer’s workplace for remark.
