GOP Senator Blocks Bill Protecting Access To IVF In Wake Of Alabama Ruling
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GOP Senator Blocks Bill Protecting Access To IVF In Wake Of Alabama Ruling

Democratic legislation seeking to protect access to in vitro fertilization across the country was blocked in the Senate on Wednesday by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.). Hyde-Smith dismissed the bill as “a vast overreach” and objected to a unanimous consent request from Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.). The Republican senator claimed the bill would legalize human cloning and commercial surrogacy. “The bill before us today is a vast overreach that is full of poison pills that go way too far‚...