Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) knows how to turn a phrase. If only he — and countless other Republicans — really meant what they said.

"I think one thing I've learned is that nobody's ever been born in a freezer,” Graham announced after an Alabama court ruled that frozen embryos produced for in vitro fertilization were, in fact, children protected by law. He declared himself in opposition to the hard-right ruling that has effectively shuttered almost half of the IVF clinics in Alabama, insisting that there will be “a correction.”

So where were Graham and other Republicans when Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) proposed a bill to protect IVF nationwide?

Nowhere; they let the bill tank instantly over a single Republican objection, just as Duckworth no doubt feared they would do.

It looked a lot like what we’ve been seeing from plenty of GOP politicians who ran to microphones and social media to say they were all in favor of IVF, even as they’ve spent years working on bills that would effectively ban it.

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