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IVF Bills From Both Democrats and GOP Blocked In U.S. Senate

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Jennifer Shutt, Arizona Mirror The closely divided U.S. Senate gridlocked Tuesday over the best way to provide nationwide protections for in vitro fertilization, despite lawmakers from both political parties maintaining they want to do so. Republicans voted against advancing a Democratic bill that could have prevented states from enacting “harmful …

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Senate Republicans Reject Democrats’ Bill On IVF Protections

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Jennifer Shutt, Kentucky Lantern U.S. Senate Democrats’ attempts to bolster reproductive rights failed again Thursday when Republicans blocked a bill guaranteeing access to in vitro fertilization from moving forward. The 48-47 procedural vote came just one day after Republicans tried unsuccessfully to pass their own IVF access bill and one …

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Republican IVF Bill Fails In U.S. Senate

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Jennifer Shutt, Arkansas Advocate Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt’s efforts to pass legislation that would block Medicaid funding from going to states that ban in vitro fertilization were unsuccessful Wednesday when Democrats blocked the bill from advancing. Britt, who introduced the legislation earlier this year alongside Texas Republican Sen. Ted …

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