Political Quotes

“last week, every Senator was put on the record as to whether they will defend the right to contraception, and despite Republicans' words about supporting birth control, their actions--voting against the Right to Contraception Act--spoke louder. Today we are putting Republicans on the record on another issue families across the country are deeply concerned about: the right to IVF. As we saw in Alabama, the threat to IVF is not hypothetical. It is not overblown, and it is not fearmongering. After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a frozen embryo is the same--has the exact same rights--as a living, breathing human person, women who waited for months and spent tens of thousands of dollars and were days away from an IVF appointment were left to wonder if it was all for nothing when their treatment was abruptly canceled. And families that had already gone through IVF were left to wonder if they could have their providers now dispose of unused embryos without facing legal threats. This happened. It was national news. It was complete chaos. So Republican efforts to dismiss this vote as fearmongering are simply not going to fly--especially when, right now, there are Republican bills, right now, that would enshrine as a matter of law that life begins at conception and that discarding unused embryos is, essentially, murder. That would essentially end IVF in our country. And this is not a fringe bill, either.…”