For the second time in about three months, Republican and Democratic senators sparred over a set of in vitro fertilization bills in the nation’s capital. Republicans blocked Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-IL) Right to IVF Act on the same day Democrats blocked a GOP bill titled the IVF Protection Act.

In vitro fertilization, used to treat infertility, has come become a political issue in 2024. A U.S. Senate bill protecting the procedure failed.

Senate Republicans blocked passage on Tuesday of a Democratic bill that would federally protect access to in vitro fertilization and require public and private insurance coverage of IVF and other fertility treatments.

GOP Senators blocked a Democratic bill that would require public and private insurance to provide IVF coverage

Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would have created a right to access in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments and mandated that insurance plans cover the practice, deriding the vote as a

The Right to IVF bill intends to provide a nationwide right to IVF treatment but was blocked by Senate Republicans this week. Republicans say bill was a “cynical show vote."

A bill protecting access to in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, failed in the U.S. Senate for a second time this week. Only two Republicans voted in favor.

Election season is heating up, and at the center of the debate are reproductive rights, with particular attention to in vitro fertilization. Two pieces of legislation under their respective political parties failed to pass.