Americans want to protect IVF, but the Senate is at odds over path forward
In the Senate, dueling bills to protect access to IVF fertility treatments illustrate the lingering partisan divide over the issue.
In the Senate, dueling bills to protect access to IVF fertility treatments illustrate the lingering partisan divide over the issue.
A Democratic-led effort to safeguard access to IVF failed earlier this year in the Senate.
The decision prompted a wave of public backlash as women saw fertility treatments canceled or put in jeopardy after the ruling.
Reality star and designer Whitney Port discusses her new partnership with prenatal vitamin company Perelel and launches the "Fertility, Unfiltered" video series. She also talks for the first time about her personal decision to pursue IVF again after facing challenges in conceiving a second child.
Mobile Infirmary, an hospital in Alabama, says it will stop offering IVF at the end of 2024, citing litigation concerns following the state's supreme court ruling earlier this year.
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From abortion restrictions to IVF bans, reproductive rights for women in the U.S. have never been more uncertain.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on reproductive rights Wednesday, focused on broad protections for in vitro fertilization. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane has the details.
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Rep. Susan Wild is trying to forge a bipartisan coalition on a politically charged issue: federal legislation to offer broad protections for in vitro fertilization treatment.
House Democrats are pushing for a bill to protect in vitro fertilization after the Alabama embryo ruling. New York Rep. Marc Molinaro, the first Republican to back the legislation, spoke with CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane about the effort.
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In the wake of an Alabama Supreme Court decision that found frozen embryos could be considered children under state law, President Biden called on Congress to guarantee the right to in vitro fertilization nationwide in his State of the Union speech. "To my friends across the aisle: Don't keep families waiting any longer," he said. "Guarantee the right to IVF nationwide."
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth introduced legislation in 2022 that would create federal protections for IVF access nationwide.
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois on Thursday told CBS News that the new law passed by the Alabama legislature designed to protect fertility clinics that provide in vitro fertilization services from liability "does not go far enough." In 2022, Duckworth introduced legislation that would create federal protections for IVF access nationwide. Janet Shamlian has more.
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Reproductive rights are likely to be a focus of President Biden's State of the Union address Thursday night with several Democrats inviting IVF patients, fertility doctors and women who have been denied abortions as their guests. CBS News campaign reporter Shawna Mizelle has more.
House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about Thursday's State of the Union Address and sitting behind President Biden as House leader for the first time. Speaker Johnson discusses the complexities of IVF legislation and need for stricter immigration policy.
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Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday are set to finalize legislation that protects in vitro fertilization providers from lawsuits and criminal prosecution after the state's Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are considered children. Committees in the Alabama state Senate and House approved the bills on Tuesday. CBS News' Janet Shamlian reports.
It shields them from suits and prosecution over the "damage or death of an embryo" during IVF services and follows the outcry after a state Supreme Court ruling equating frozen embryos to children.
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In the Senate, dueling bills to protect access to IVF fertility treatments illustrate the lingering partisan divide over the issue.
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In the Senate, dueling bills to protect access to IVF fertility treatments illustrate the lingering partisan divide over the issue.
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In the Senate, dueling bills to protect access to IVF fertility treatments illustrate the lingering partisan divide over the issue.
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