The thought of IVF being unattainable for military families is a slap in the face for service members who are unable to conceive. This shouldn’t be a political issue, but leave it to Republicans to weaponize and oppose legislation supporting access to in vitro fertilization.

On Thursday, Republicans in the Senate blocked passage of the Right to IVT Act legislation, introduced by Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Patty Murray of Washington.

The block came after Republicans' recent unsuccessful attempt to pass an alternate IVF bill, the IVF Protection Act, introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. That bill would have withheld Medicaid funding to states that ban IVF, but it did not address the legal implications of discarding nonviable embryos.

In February, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through IVF should be considered children, making the discarding of embryos a crime. A month later, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation that provides civil and criminal immunity to medical professionals and patients if embryos are destroyed or damaged during IVF procedures.

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