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Coverage dated May 19, 2024

Republicans Ted Cruz and Katie Britt introduce bill to protect IVF access

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A Democratic-led effort to safeguard access to IVF failed earlier this year in the Senate.

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  1. Washington Times

    Republican senators’ bill aims to protect IVF (opens Washington Times)

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    Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Katie Britt of Alabama introduced legislation Monday that would protect access to in vitro fertilization, just months after an Alabama Supreme Court made a ruling that would have put the future of IVF at risk.

  2. CBS News

    Republicans Ted Cruz and Katie Britt introduce bill to protect IVF access (opens CBS News)

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    A Democratic-led effort to safeguard access to IVF failed earlier this year in the Senate.

  3. AL.com

    States banning IVF will lose Medicaid funding under bill from Katie Britt, Ted Cruz (opens AL.com)

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    "We are the party of families and we want to help people who are struggling with infertility," Britt said.

  4. Florida Phoenix

    U.S. Sen. Katie Britt introduces bill to end a state’s Medicaid funding if it blocks IVF • Florida Phoenix (opens Florida Phoenix)

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    WASHINGTON — Two Republican U.S. senators have teamed up to try to prevent states from banning in vitro fertilization, months after the Alabama state Supreme Court upended access to the procedure by ruling fertilized embryos were children under state law. Sens.

  5. Washington Examiner

    Cruz and Britt to introduce bill to cut off Medicaid funding for states banning IVF (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Sens. Ted Cruz and Katie Britt are introducing a bill to protect IVF access by making it a condition of Medicaid federal funding.