@ Senate Rs block IVF protection bill

[pixy0stix]

thehill.com/homenews/senate/4720506-senate-republicans-block-ivf-legislation/

There's been rumblings the last couple of days that this was coming. I think in part it *is* a political stunt by the Ds to have the Rs on record that they voted against this.

Simultaneously it could also be a response to the Southern Baptists codifying their stance against IVF yesterday - apnews.com/article/southern-baptists-caution-ivf-practices-frozen-embryos-9f66265b32e9e3cad01449efaa80ce55

[basilosaurus]

It's a political stunt with which I happen to agree. Get them on the record! Don't let them weasel out with some states rights argument.

Baptists are really on a roll turning people away from their flavor of religion. I think Beth Moore leaving was a pretty big blow, and it happened pretty quickly.

[ellipses84]

I don’t consider it a political stunt when the past 8 years have proven we need to pass federal laws to protect everything, past precedent means nothing and the Supreme Court is corrupt. I want to see more of this by Democrats - they need strong offense and defense. I heard a great summary of Project 2025 - it will make all the horrible things happening in red states happen in blue states too. IVF is legitimately being threatened in states like Texas and Alabama. The IVF community was devastated when Roe V Wade was overturned because they knew the next step of the anti-abortion religious extremism movement. Prior to this, Ted Cruz and Katie Britt tried to pass a law to withhold Medicaid funding from any state that passes a ban on IVF. That was a stunt, IMO because they know these extreme views will lose a ton of votes and if it passes it would further the R agenda of destroying Medicaid (which would lead to the deaths of so many people because we know they don’t care about actual living people). The Democrats’ version was to establish IVF as a federal right.

[basilosaurus]

Jun 14, 2024 10:55:45 GMT -5 ellipses84 said:

I don’t consider it a political stunt when the past 8 years have proven we need to pass federal laws to protect everything, past precedent means nothing and the Supreme Court is corrupt. 

In fairness, they threw in a bunch of other languages that made for damn sure the Rs would never vote for it, that's the stunt part. Might as well, because a simple "protect IVF access for all" would also not pass. I cannot remember the specifics, but if I had to guess it would be something like defining all as including LGBTQ+, single people, and atheists which is 100% speculation on my part, but also 100% plausible.

I'm pretty sure there was language to that effect sprinkled throughout, though.

[Bad Dingo]

I admit that I just skimmed the language but I didn't see anything in it that wasn't related to IVF and reproductive care like is being suggested.

www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/S.-4445-Right-to-IVF-Act.pdf