{"id":16122,"date":"2024-02-27T00:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/house-democrats-eye-alabama-ivf-ruling-as-path-to-retaking-majority-in-november\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T00:48:18","slug":"house-democrats-eye-alabama-ivf-ruling-as-path-to-retaking-majority-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/house-democrats-eye-alabama-ivf-ruling-as-path-to-retaking-majority-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats eye Alabama IVF ruling as path to retaking majority in November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Democrats have found a new political cudgel for the November 2024 elections after the Alabama Supreme Court\u2019s recent ruling triggered a stoppage to IVF treatment around the state.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm, held a press conference on Monday morning to tie House Republicans to the ruling, even as top GOP figures continue to speak out for IVF access and accuse Democrats of twisting the issue.<\/p>\n

\u2018House Republicans have furthered this agenda at every turn. They want a national abortion ban, full stop. With their razor-thin majority, they have pushed anti-abortion, anti-freedom policies, including legislation that would double down on the Alabama court\u2019s ruling and ban IVF nationwide,\u2019 DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., told reporters.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a similar playbook to the one Democrats followed after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.<\/p>\n

Indeed, DelBene pointed to Democratic victories in states where abortion access was on the ballot and suggested the left would keep that momentum up in the wake of Alabama\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

\u2018It has proven to be a losing issue for Republicans, whether in New York, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kansas, or dozens of other states across the country, we\u2019ve seen voters head to the ballot box to defend their rights,\u2019 DelBene said. \u2018And in this election, we\u2019re fighting for our rights, our freedoms, our families, and Republicans keep making clear that they\u2019re willing to do anything to rip those away.\u2019<\/p>\n

A cornerstone of House Democrats\u2019 push is the GOP\u2019s Life At Conception Act, which says life starts at the moment of conception and which critics warn could lead to nationwide abortion restrictions. With no mention of IVF, Democrats have argued that the bill\u2019s lack of protections for the procedure could allow for its restriction as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., one of the 125 Republicans supporting the bill who is also one of the right\u2019s leading voices on reproductive health access, said the accusation is \u2018a leftist myth.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Some people are getting knocked for signing on to the Life of Conception Act, but that act doesn\u2019t do anything to ban or prohibit access to IVF. That\u2019s a leftist myth. What it does do is, it says the scientific fact that life begins at conception. That\u2019s basic science, most people feel that way,\u2019 Mace said.<\/p>\n

Alabama\u2019s conservative Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that three couples trying in vitro fertilization (IVF) who lost their frozen embryos in an accident at a storage facility in the state are able to sue the medical providers for wrongful death of a child.<\/p>\n

Since then, three Alabama medical facilities have stopped providing IVF treatment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s prompted pushback from key national Republicans like Mace, who told Fox News Digital she plans to introduce a resolution to support IVF access on a federal level.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s a lie,\u2019 Mace said of the left-wing efforts to lump Republicans together on reproductive rights. \u2018I\u2019ve always believed that life begins at conception, that\u2019s a belief of mine. That doesn\u2019t mean I want to ban IVF.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mace warned fellow Republicans on Monday that IVF could be a \u2018huge issue\u2019 and urged them to be \u2018on board\u2019 with speaking out in support of the procedure.<\/p>\n

She dismissed concerns that it could be an election problem for Republicans, however, pointing to IVF access\u2019 support from high-level Republicans like former President Donald Trump. Trump said at a rally over the weekend that he would \u2018strongly support the availability of IVF.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I really liked seeing Donald Trump\u2019s comments at the rally at Rock Hill on Friday. He\u2019s spot on, 100%. That is where we need to be as a party,\u2019 Mace said.<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also spoke out in favor of IVF access, as have a large share of establishment and moderate Republicans.<\/p>\n

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) told Fox News Digital, \u2018Republican mothers, grandmothers, and foster parents all looked voters directly in the eyes and said they support IVF access. Democrats are cynically twisting a serious family issue and expecting voters to believe their lies; they\u2019re going too far, and it will blow up in their faces.\u2019<\/p>\n

The NRCC also pointed out that Republicans targeted by the DCCC over the IVF ruling have spoken out in favor of the procedure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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House Democrats have found a new political cudgel for the November 2024 elections after the Alabama Supreme Court\u2019s recent ruling triggered a stoppage to IVF treatment around the state. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm, held a press conference on Monday morning to tie House Republicans to the ruling, even as <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}