Senate Republicans just blocked a bill Sen. Jon Ossoff and Democrats put forward to safeguard the right to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments across the nation.
Since 1978, IVF has helped American families have nearly half a million babies in the United States.
But after an Alabama Supreme Court's decision earlier this month, which mandates that embryos be recognized as children, doctors in the state have been forced to stop offering IVF to patients, facing the risk of criminal charges.
That's why Sen. Ossoff and Senate colleagues launched a push to pass the Access to Family Building Act, legislation he co-sponsored to establish a legal right to IVF in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Alabama Supreme Court's extreme ruling.
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