(WBBM NEWSRADIO) - U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth vows to keep pushing for protections for IVF treatments after the Illinois lawmaker's bill failed Wednesday in Washington.
Duckworth used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive her two daughters and put forward a bill again that would nationally protect the procedure, this time after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled embryos are children.
She said on the Senate floor that she takes the court’s decision personally.
“Suggest that people like me who became parents with the help of modern medicine should be in jail cells and not nurseries? And, I know that I’m not the only one who struggles to understand how elected representatives who back these kinds of policies can call themselves members of the so-called ‘party of life,’” Duckworth said.
The Democrat, Duckworth, challenged her Republican colleagues to support her bill.
“It’s the nightmarish blend of hypocrisy and misogyny that you think it is,” said Duckworth. “The very people who claim to be defending family values are the ones trying to enact dystopian policies that would prevent Americans from starting their own families.”
The bill was blocked by Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith who said it was a poison pill and would allow cloning.
In the last election cycle two years ago, she made a similar objection to Duckworth’s bill following the Dobbs decision.
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