Senate Republicans blocked a bill ensuring access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and requiring insurance coverage, calling it a political stunt by Democrats. The vote ended 51-44, failing to meet the 60-vote threshold needed, with two Republican Senators, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, supporting it. Ted Cruz introduced a competing bill to preserve Medicaid funding for IVF in states that ban it, which Democrats blocked. The debate reflects broader tensions over reproductive rights, highlighted by a recent Alabama Supreme Court decision that classified frozen embryos as children, affecting IVF clinics. The issue ties into larger debates on reproductive rights following the Dobbs ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
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