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Don't believe right-wing media propaganda about GOP support for IVF
IVF restrictions are a longtime component of the GOP's push for a “human life amendment” to the Constitution
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After a February Alabama Supreme Court ruling that declared frozen embryos “extrauterine children” led some fertility treatment centers in the state to pause in vitro fertilization services, Republicans and right-wing media have desperately tried to assuage mass political backlash to the decision, insisting that they will protect IVF procedures and that Democrats are overstating the threat to scare voters. Notably, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), who delivered the GOP rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address, appeared the next morning on Fox & Friends for a softball interview in which she boasted of Republican support for in vitro fertilization. But this narrative directly contradicts the GOP’s long-standing support for a so-called “human life amendment” to the Constitution, which would establish “legal rights from conception” and undermine IVF treatments.