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HOUSE GOP NAVIGATES IVF BACKLASH BY OFFERING SYMBOLIC MEASURES WITH NO FORCE OF LAW

March 5, 2024

From NBC News:

Numerous Republicans in competitive districts have taken to supporting symbolic resolutions in the wake of the IVF controversy.

Democrats say the swing-district Republicans will be enablers of a GOP agenda to bar abortion and IVF if they’re given power in the election.

“The Alabama Supreme Court did what a lot of Republican House members have wanted to do,” Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., who chairs Democrats’ campaign arm, said Monday on MSNBC. “They supported legislation called the Life at Conception Act, which is similar to what the Alabama court decided, and now all these Republicans are trying to come out saying they support IVF, but none of them are willing to support legislation to actually do that.”

“They want a national abortion ban that impacts contraception, IVF, so many other things,” she said. “Our rights are at risk.”

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