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The Guardian - US
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Léonie Chao-Fong and Lauren Gambino in Washington

US Senate attempt to protect IVF access blocked by Mississippi Republican

Middle-aged blond white woman in black blazer smiles holding microphone with one hand and gesturing beyond lectern with the other, in front of American flag.
Cindy Hyde-Smith in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2018. Photograph: Rogelio V Solis/AP

Senate Democrats’ attempts to move forward a bill that would have granted Americans federal protections for in vitro fertilization access have failed.

The bill, sponsored by the Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth, came after a recent Alabama supreme court ruling that declared frozen embryos are children and led to the closure of multiple infertility clinics across the state.

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