WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Senate Republicans blocked a vote Tuesday on a Democratic bill to force every state to allow and insurance companies to cover embryo-destructive in vitro fertilization (IVF), citing the bill’s infringement of conscience rights and establishment of a nationwide “right” for unmarried people and homosexual and gender-confused individuals to use the technology to procure children.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-IL) “Right to IVF Act” sought to guarantee that clients can obtain and practitioners can offer so-called “fertility treatment, including assisted reproductive technology services,” and to ban states from enacting what the bill called “harmful or unwarranted limitations or requirements.”
It further required a “group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage” to include coverage for fertility procedures “if such plan or coverage provides coverage for obstetrical services,” and such procedures could not be denied based on marriage status, sex, “sexual orientation and gender identity,” or “any other protected class that is covered by Federal law.”
