Sens. Ted Cruz, Katie Britt introduce Republican bill to protect IVF – By Chris Benson (UPI) / May 20, 2024
May 20 (UPI) — Two conservative Republican senators on Monday introduced a bill that seeks to protect access to in vitro fertilization, known as IVF, after a past effort by Senate Democrats failed in February.
The three-page bill introduced Monday, styled as the “IVF Protection Act,” was sponsored by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
“This common-sense piece of legislation affirms both life and liberty — family and freedom,” Britt said in a joint news release with Cruz, who commented he was “proud” to partner with Britt while saying IVF “has given miraculous hope to millions of Americans, and it has given families across the country the gift of children.”
With the bill’s language, states would be ineligible to receive Medicaid funding if an outright IVF ban has been enacted and as written says states “shall not prohibit in vitro fertilization (as defined in section 4(b) of the IVF Protection Act) services,” and ”shall ensure that no unit of local government in the State prohibits such services.”
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