senate -- ms. duckworth: are we in a quorum call? pre -- the presiding officer: we are not. ms. duckworth: i've been called a lot of names in life tammy, colonel, senator, but mommy is without a doubt my

favorite name. it's the my 5-year-old uses when she runs into the house after dance class eager to show me what she lear one my 9-year-old uses when she announces her life plan when shee she wanted to be a garbage collector and now she wants to be a cyber warier. they would not have been born without the basic rights that americans have been depending on for nearly a half century. after a decade of struggling with infertility after serving in iraq i was able to pregnant through the miracle of ivf. it is the reason why i get to experience the joy, stress and joy. it is the reason my husband and i are not just tammy and brian, but we're mom and dad. ivf made my heart whole and

full. but for countless women in alabama, that desperately sought-after dream of becoming a mom just became so much harder. last week that state's supreme court ruled that frozen embryos created through ivf should be considered children under state law, a ruling that paints women like me and our doctors as criminals, and it throws ivf into chaos as people wonder if they might be criminalized for trying to create a family. if you're thinking this makes no sense, you're right. you're not misunderstanding anything. you're not missing something. it's the nightmarishly blend of and misogyny that you think it is. those claiming to -- that -- this prevent americans from starting their own families. this this is no longer a

hypothetical worse-case scenario. ivf providers around the state paused treatments out of fear that their doctors and patients could be punished. organizations that transports embryos to and from medical facilities in alabama have already announced that they'll stop doing so meaning that would-bets there won't be able to start their families in any other states either. and now that the first domino has fallen it seems like it could only be a matter of time before more hospitals and more organizations make the same call before more state courts issue similar ru extremist politicians succeed in enacting even more draconian laws nationwide. think about that. think about what's at stake if state courts can simply strip away access to ivf. think aboutow many would -- would-be moms would not hear their child's first gurgle of a

laugh,ow many dads might not be able to play tooth fairy when their daughter loses a tooth. i was stationed in florida, and i didn't know it at the time but infertility would become one of the most heartbreaking struggles in my life my miscarriage more painful than any wound on the battlefield. a doctor at a catholic hospital that my v.a. hospital referred me to told me i was simply too old for treatment that at 42, i should just if home and enjoy my husband instead and if it was meant to be i would get pregnant. it was pure luck that i found out that that doctor was lying to me. that she wasn't basing his advice on medical science but on her personal religious beliefs, nearly costing me my chance to have my two little girls. so it's a little personal when a majority male state supreme

court suggest people like me who became parents with the help of modern medicine should be in jail cells and not nurseries, i couldn't don't -- don't understand how they can call themselves the member of the party of life. no rulings like this one and the bills with the same intent being pushed forward in state country are not about being pro-life they're about catering to an extremist base by controlling women's bodies pushing politics into. so the most personal decisions anyone could make. going through ivf, three-my five fertilized eggs were deemed nonviable. if a version of this ruling had been in place to implant each of these three -- each of those three nonviable embryos, i might have been forced to suffer through three more miscarriages or risk me or my daughter being

convicted of manslaughter. that's the kind of extremist -- extremism we're talking about here. that's the level of cruelty we're facing that's the kind of future we're fighting to prevent. when frozen embryos have more rights than the woman who would carry them. let's be clear about what led to the moment. the overturning of roe made last week possible transferring the power of whether or when to start families from us to politicians in state houses across the country. donald trump is the one who brags about taking down roe v. wade donald trump asks if that is it something to be proudof. while it may be convenient for him to claim he had nothing to do with what happened in alabama, with we know the truth. ivf is at risk because of him. he is to blame. him and every other gop official who shamelessly kisses his ri word

they say, they care more about protecting his poll numbers than americans' freedoms. after roe v. wade was overturned even before then when the senate was deciding whether to confirm brett kavanaugh and a coney barrett, i warranted that red -- warned that red states would come for ivf and they have. if we do in the act now, it will only get worse. there are a lot of of nuanced tough calls we must make as senators this isn't one of them. we know what's right even if extremist courts would like to rob us of our rights. we shouldn't have to wait nool women and doctors are thrown into jail before we act to protect them. that's why today i'm begging my colleagues to help me pass myo family building act, a bill that would ensure that every american's right to become a parent through treatments like ivf are fully protected

regardless of what state they live in. helping guarantee that no hopeful parnlt or doctor in this country can be held criminally liable for starting a family through ivf. the reality is one in four married women have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term. that doesn't include part nefless americans or other families trying to have kids. that's one in four in red states and in blue states in big cities and rural towns in the the -- in the wealthiest towns and poorest of zip codes, infertility doesn't recognize state no one should feel someone else's religious beliefs should rob them of their chance to get pgnant and no doctor should have to risk a criminal record just to provide women basic health care. to my republican colleagues please think about how many that one in four equates to in your state.

women willing to go through expensive, painful medical treatments of treatments just for a chance to experience the smallest most proud homes of parenthood just to experience a needs to be swaddled or a toddler who needs their shoes to be tied if you believe they need to be called a mom instead of a criminal this should be obvious legislation. because in this nightmarish moment it is nowhere near enough to send out a tweet claiming you care about women's right despite a voting record to the contrary. this is it where the rubber meets the road if you care about families and honestly interested in protecting ivf, then you need to show it by not blocking this bill today. it's that simple. thank you. madam president, as if in legislative session, i ask

unanimous consent that the committee on health, education, labor and pens further consideration of s. 3612, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. further, that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mrs. hyde-smith: i support the ability for mothers and fathers to have total access to ivf and bringing new life into the world. i also believe human life should be protected. these are not mutually exclusive. let's be clear about what the alabama case is about. this was a case brought by whose human embryos were killed when an unauthorized individual walked into the fertility clinic through anoor, removed several human embryos and dropped them causing their death.

the urf the parents found that these frozen embringyos are children under law. did not ban ivf nor has any state banned ivf. the bill before us today is a vast overreach that is full of poison pills that go way too far, far beyond ensuring legal d]acss to ivf. the act explicitly waives the religious freedom restoration act and would -- it could be forced to procedures -- facilitate procedures that violate their core beliefs, including health insurance plans. this could be the first time that the act represented by chuck schumer was explicitly waived. the bill's expansion definition

of artificial reproductivive technology sweeps in much more than ivf and has far-reachi implicationings. it would legalize human cloning, it would legalize commercial surrogacy, including forgmhout parental involvement. it would legalize jean-edited designer baby -- gene-edited designer babies it would legalize the creation human animal other developed countries like germany, new and states like louisiana have policies that allow ivf, coupled with commonsense protections to respect human life creating rights to human cloning, the genetic engineering of human embryos and surrogacy i is too extreme and goes far beyond ivf. this bill misses the mark. we should strive to do both and

this bill does not do that. therefore, i object. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. ms. duckworth: madam president i have the greatest respect and admiration for my friend from mississippi, but i have to say i disagree with her interpretation of my piece of legislation. this bill does three things and three things only, it protects the right of individuals to seek reproductivive technology without fear of being prosecuted fort technology. it preserves the right of physicians to provide that assisted preproductivive technology without fear of being prosecuted and it allows insurance companies to cover assisted reproductivive technology. that is all that it does. it does not force to seek reproductivive technology offer it or cover it.

it says you have a statu choose to pursue reproductivive technology that you will be able to do so. i want to note that in louisiana the is already state law that prohibits the discardation of frozen embryos or frozen fert fertilizedation fertilizedation. in florida, there it is a bill pending before the state legislature that would deem t a fertilized egg is a human being and provide for the opportunity for penalties to be put into judgment for those who would discard the fertilizedation. so this a real threat today. with that, i would like to yield to my colleague from nevada. . ms. cortez masto: thank you, madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from nevada. ms. cortez masto: first, i want to start off by thanking my colleague, senator duckworth, for not only sharing her story of her wonderful family and beautiful two daughters whoive -- i see myself what an

incredible mother she is and her fantastic girls. i also want to thank her for bringing forward legislation. women across the country use ivf to start and grow their families. you're hearing that not only from senator duckworth, i've in nevada and really across the country. they make that choice in consultation with their partners their families and their doctors, not a government official. not a government official. there is no logical reason to deny women that right. and yet afro v. wade -- after roe v. wade fell we could see a mile away that ivf was in danger. senator duckworth came forward in recognizing that and that's why her legislation is so important. was -- ivf was another chance to erode women's rights in this country. they've introduced a federal abortion ban that wou supersede state laws. they've stacked the courts with

antichoice judges. they've limited funding to women'scare. and they have repeatedly ignored the very science behind reproductive health care in order to push their agenda. we knew this was coming. in fact we tried to do something about it a year ago. after roe was overturned not only did senator duckworth come to the floor with her legislation, we have introduced nume floor to protect women's rights. and every single time unfortunately, one of our republican colleagues comes forward to object. explanation but continuing to really erode women's rights in this country. and i have to say these extreme gop colleagues of ours claim to be pro-life. they claim to champion family planning. but really when it comes down to it they don't support it. you just have to be in our communities and listen to the women and their families and you

understand that. the difference this time around is that the alabama supreme court is actually calling their bluff. the threat to ivf is no longer this hypothetical. in response to the ruling and i believe it's an extreme ruling from this judge, but in response ruling clinics, some clinics in alabama have halted ivf procedures. they've halted them. i have seen heartbreaking stories of alabama families who are being forced to put their dreams of starting a family on hold and i'm here to tell you it will not stop with alabama. the consequences of this ruling not only will it close some of those clinics in alabama that we've heard about, it will have lling impact nationally. it's one thing to have the legislation that bans it outright but the chillings another barrier. and you don't have to be from a state like nevada that's a pro-choice state. if you are threatening women, if you're threatening their families if you're threatening

doctors that want to help these women, that has a chilling effect even even in nevada. these extreme gop politicians are seeing this. you know quite frankly, i'm watching them and they're suddenly stuck. they have to decide whether to agree with this judge's antichoice decision or to concede that wom right to choose if whether, and how to become -- when and how to become a parent. suddenly they have to decide how far they're willing to go in their crusade to control women. having a child through ivf is a wonderful thing. itcrime. and it should not be punished. our antichoice republican colleagues they know this. yet they have once again refused to do the for american families by supporting protections for accessing ivf. and let me just finally say their hypocrisy is on full display. and america is watching. you don't have to believe me. just listen to the american

public. across this country a majority a majority -- and i don't care -- it's women i hear from. it's their loved ones it's men. i don't care care if you're democrat republican you're nonpartisan. a majority of americans want women to have this right to choose. they want them to have this ability. they believe in having families. they believe in ivf. they believe in women's reproductive rights. and most importantly, what this this -- some of our republican colleagues are doing is inhibiting and limiting women's accesso 21st century health care. that's what this is about. why should we deny women the right to access 21st century health care if it's going to save their lives, it's going to help them have families? what is wrong with that at the end of day? so i have to thank senator duckworth. it's unfortunate that we had an objection to her legislation that unfortunately in this day and

age, but it is. that's where we are today, fighting for women's rights fighting across this country. finally, my only other question to my colleagues is i trust women to make this decision. why don't they? thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, madam president. thank you to my colleague from illinois from nevada and other senators who are out here to fight for the right for women to have basic health care services in this country. you know i have said before that republican attacks on reproductive freedom would never stop with e. they would never stop with abortion. i have said before ivf was at risk. and now it has been so heartbreaking to see that warning become a gut-wrenching reality no women in alabama. and it is absolutely infuriating to see some of the same

republicans who support so-called fetal person hood bills, who want to codify the very ideology in the alabama supreme court decision that ripped away access to ivf care. suddenly acting surprised. suddenly acting like they had no idea this would happen. suddenly acting like unforeseen when it is actually what we have been warning about and exactly what the far right has been working towards for decades. this isn't some surprise. the alabama supreme court decision is republican ideology in action. so spare me the empty statements especially after the objection that we just saw here unless you're actually going to us to protect ivf. save your breath. there are women in alabama who desperately want to start a family women who have tried for years to get pregnant women who

have gone through the heartbreak of miscarriage, women who battling cancer and other devastating diagnosis for whom ivf is the only way they will be able to have children. and now after everything they've been through, the hope the disappointment the thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars it can cost to pursue ivf, after all that these women have had their dreams shattered because republicans believe a frozen embryo kept in storage at an ivf clinic is the same and should have the exact same rights as a living breathing human person. that's not hyperbole. that is not hypothetical. that is what is happening. you don't have to imagine how painful this is. you just have to listen to women in alabama who have had their worlds turned upside down now by this decision.

megan cole rare blood disease, prevents her from carrying children. her hopes of starting a family through ivf and a surrogate were dashed last week whether her doctor called to cancel her friday appointment. she asked about transferring theut of state. even that door has been slammed shut to her. jasmine york turned to ivf after previousctopic pregnancies left her with no other options to have a baby. now alabama has left her with no said it's completely just derailed a lot of hope. could i la -- kyla lee spent nine years and $80,000 trying to have a child. she's gone through several miscarriages and she was days away days away from getting a viable embryo transferred. but instead of getting that embryo tr heartbreaking phone call.

her hopes of a family were being put on hold. years of trying tens o thousands of dollars, and at the last moment republicans pulled the rug out from under her. who have already gone through ivf are facing the fallout. can they afford to pay and store unused embryos indefinite prosecuted if they don't? they don't know. right now no one knows. the anger, madam president, the anguish, the stories of these women are heartbreaking. as ivf patient kelly belmont put it quote, we've already invested so much time and money and just physical and emotional anguish into this process, and to think it could have all been for nothing and that we could be ending our journey to be able to have children is absolutely terrifying. i'm just trying to hold mysel unquote. so powerful. i don't know how anyone can

listen to these stories and still think politicians should be making women's health care decisions for them. i really don't. now, i said earlier republicans are acting surprised now by the result of the very policies they've pushed for. they can save their breath. that's because actions speak louder than words. and many of the same republicans saying they care now about ivf literally right now cosponsors of legislation that would enshrine fetal personhood into law and make ivf unavailable nationwide. you cannot support ivf and support fetal personhood laws. they are fundamentally incompatible. madam president, instead of empty words, democrats want to see action and that is why we just tried to pass the access to

family building act. it doesn't get any more straightforward than that. and yet just now republicans blocked the bill and showed their true colors when it comes to ivf. i am frustrated madam president, but i am not done fighting because i know americans are watching and they will not forget who's standing with families in alabama and across the country and who is standing in their way. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: as part of what we're doing here i ask unanimous consent that the following senators be permitted to speak for up to five minutes each prior to the scheduled votes. myself senator kaine, senator warren and wyden. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you. i've been really awed and humbled by the eloquence of the women senatorswho havenp preceded

me and i hesitate to add to what they've stated so powerfully already. but of course i'm a man. skandz this -- and this bill is about women's reproductive care and women's rights but it is also about the rights of all of us. the name of the a access to family building act. it's about families. it's about men like myself whose most awesome moment in life was the time they held their newly born child. men have an equal stake in the issue that brings us here today. men should be as scared and angry as women are about this

trend which is so destruct iveive to basic rights and liberties. women's rights are humanrights. the rights at stake here are rights that are american. what could be more american thanwa bring a child into the world and what could be more heartbreaking? we've all been through it through fr our own family. man and woman in love want to have a child, miscarriages other obstacles that prevent it. and there is a hole in their hearts a hole in their homes and their families. as they struggle with issues of fertility this measure very simply guarantees the right for women and families everywhere -- in alabama and connecticut, in every state in this country -- to access the fertility care

they need to bring children the world. you know, over three years ago, before dobbs was decided and never could have imagined that roe v. wade would be overturned and the republican party eviscerated access to abortion care i posed what ail thought was a really easy question to a supreme c nominee amy cony barrett. i asked is it constitutional to treatment? she dodged she ducked she refused to answer. i thought it was self-evident. it is not constitutional to criminalize ivf treatment. that was before dobbs. that was before the legal landscape was volcanically uprooted by this supreme court, which has been captured by a fringe.

some may have wondered why at that time i asked what seemed like a very far-fetched, object view its arcane question. a lot of people probably didn't even know what it meant. and they may have also wondered why justice barrett refused to answer such an obvious question with such a self-evident answer. wasn't it settled that ivf free trade agreement is not only legally protected -- ivf treatment is not only legally protected but also a scientific miracle. think of it for a moment. the science here that is now accessible to every american everyone in the world. and pro-family having children parents who wanted child and they may have wondered as well wasn't ivf the

last best hope for so many people struggling with infertility desperately seeking to experience the miracle of childbirth for themselves? who could to that miracle in the lives of a family who would not only relish but raise a child to contribute to our great country? what has become devastatingly and tragically clear is that the republican party's animosity towards women's rights doesn't stop at abortion. it's why i asked that ivf and it's why i didn't get a clear answer from a republican nominee of the supreme court. the war on women and on reproductive choices by women and the war on families hasn't stopped at abortion or even ivf.

your time is up. mr. blumenthal: so i conclude by thanking my colleagues who have brought this measure to the floor, particularly senator duckworth, and i regret that republicans have blocked this measure. thank you, madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. mr. kaine: thank you, mr. president. the first child born in vitro in the united states is elizabeth carr and she was born in norfolk, virginia, in 1981. elizabeth's parents were massachusetts residents, and they struggled with infer and they are dream was to are have a child and yet it was not to be. until they heard about a husband and wife team, walter an georgeann jones. and it must have been a hard

road for them to find a place that said yes because this seemed like science fiction at the time. but the eastern virginia medical school in norfolk said open a fertility clinic here. i remember i was 23 years old then and in my memory there was something about it like on the cover of news "newsweek." i've goneack and realized no it was "life" magazine. science is so hard to even wrap your head around and yet the carrs heard about this and started to travel. they were not people with much money. they started to travel to norfolk and became patients of the twodoctors, jones and their daughter elizabeth was born in virginia in the 1981. she is 43 years old raising her own family today a -- today. elizabeth has been followed -- wrap your head around this -- what seemed like unimaginable

science fiction in 1981. there are now by best12 people walking this planet who were born by ivf. living their lives, being happy raising families contributing to their communities -- 12 million people. what could be more pro-life than in vitro fertilization? 12 million people. elizabeth was interviewed two days ago by wbur a public radio station, television station in boston and here's what she said. she talked about her life and what she is sea doing. she s chillingly, for the first time in my life i feel like an endangered species. i feel like an endangered species. i think many of us believed that the dobbs decision -- and we made predictions about it -- was not fundamentally about pro-life. it was about control.

it was about control of cisions with respect to abortion with respect to contraception, and now with respect to deciding there's a path out of have a child. no we want to control that too. that's what the alabama supreme court has done. that's what dobbs was about. that's why i'm proud to sign onto the bill led by senator duckworth, the access to family building act. it's a simple -- it's as simple a bill as can be. patients have a right to access fertility treatment, including in vitro fertilization services. this is not a mandate. the enforcement provisions are provisions that allow a person or a health care provider to bring action against a state or governmental entity tries to interfere with the right that they have. no state should interfere with this right, none. and this is a very simple bill

that would enable the elizabeth carrs of the world to continue to be born and to continue to live happy and productive lives. i'm so glad to be a cosponsor, and, madam president, i yield the floor.. warren: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. ms. warren: madam president, just now, my friend and colleague, senator tammy duck worth, a longtime champion for ivf and a longtime champion for families put forward an important bill that would ensure that families have being a is he is to the services they need -- have access to the services they need to have a baby including ivf. since then republicans have blocked this bill to protect ivf. now, remember that for all of their talk about when it came down to it right

here in this chamber, republicans blocked ivf protection. republican opposition to ivf is terrifying. it makes me it should not surprise anyone. donald trump set the stage for the attacks on reproductive rights when he stacked the supreme court with ultraconservative justices and overturned roe v. wade. and since then, republicans banned or severely restricted abortion in 24 states. they're trying ban medication abortion nation-wide, and now in alabama these extremists have virtually outlawed ivf. fertility care that gives people a chance to start a family. this has always been about conservative politicians controlling women's bodies. this has been donald trump and

the republicans' plan all along. and the opposition to senator duckworth's proposal today shows that republicans are doublingeproductive freedom. they are coming for medication abortion. they are coming for birth control. prenatal care. make no mistake -- we will fight them every step of the way. i want to talk for just a minute about the people who are affected by these extremist policies. families in alabama who have been wanting and praying that ivf can help them have a baby. women who have injected themselves with medication for weeks or months or even years. people who have spentn entire life's savings trying to start a family only now to see their hopes go down the drain.

lgbtq families who have spent years taking on every obstacles just for the chance to have a baby of their own. and for some this was the last and now republicans like donald trump and those in this chamber might try to backtrack, might try to say that they are worng to protect ivf, but it's all talk. senate republicans' actions today speak louder than any empty promises they make. americans can tell when republican politicians try to talk out of both sides of their mouths. the american people want reproductive freedom. the american people support parents and those desperately trying to become parents. so here's what comes next -- democrats have made clear that we stand with president biden,

with vice president harris and with the millions of families affected by these heartless policies. we stand to protect reproductive rights for people all across this country. and together we will fight for every person to have access to a safe abortion we will f to have access to the services needed to have a baby and we won't stop fighting until we secure the congress that we need to protect reproductive freedom for everyone in this country. i am proud to be a cosponsor of senator duckworth's bill and together we're going to get this done. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. mr. wyden: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: madam president, i want to say to my colleague from illinois i am so proud to be a supporter of your legislation

that is going to provide the necessary protections for women in america to become mothers. and i think i mentioned this to my colleague at lunch a couple of days ago. 30 years ago, madam president i wrote thelity clinic success rate and certification act into law, and i would just say to my colleague, back then we never thought -- never thought -- we'd have to be standing today on the floor of the united states senate debating this, as we are today. but we are here because a few days ago alabama's far-right supreme court handed down a first of its kind ruling effectively making ivf impossible i alabama. so we're seeing heartbreaking headlines about couples in that state being forced to rethink

their plans tol start a family through the ivf process that was just in effect getting going back then, 30 years ago. families have already spent tens of thousands of dollars and have undergone extensive medical treatment. alabama's largest hospital system the university of alabama, has already passed -- paused its ivf services out of fear of prosecution. the decision to conceive a child through ivf is rarely ever a parent's first choice. it's physically and emotionally painful, taxing and tedious and expensive. but for countless couples dreaming of just one thing, just one thing -- the chance to start a family -- the legislation that my colleagues have been working is absolutely essential. the ivf journey, as we started talking about years ago, for so many parentsgruelling, filled with countless doctors'

appointments agonizing waits for test results and, too often -- too often -- disappointment. the process is very delicate. embryos can expire at any time during the process due to an citizens. a doctor could be charged with wrongful death in an embryo expires. that means women who are already undergoing this incredibly painful process could also be handed a wrongful death lawsuit on top of everything else. that my view madam president and colleagues is nothing short of criminalizing parents, criminalizing people parents. unfortunately while this ruling is a shocking one, it's not all that surprising if you've been paying attention to the ongoing war that the far right is waging on women and families in america. for years republicans laughed

off the concerns about the vulnerability of abortion protections under roe. then they gutted it at the first opportunity. since the dobbs decision these same republicans have tried again to convince the american people that there's no threat of a national abortion law and no threat to any other facet of reproductive freedom like contraception. in short, no domino effect. instead the repeal of roe has laid the groundwork for an onslaught of court rulings just like this one in alabama which explicitly references the dobbs case. the gaslightingould bef it weren't so terrifying. we've all become familiar with the adage when someone shows you who they are, believe first time. at every opportunity republicans have moved mountains in order to restrict the constitutional rights and freedoms of wome making it impossible for them to live their lives free from government intrusion. and it's pretty clear to me

they're not going to rest until there's a politician in every bedroom and exam room in america. in the wake of last week's ruling i saw a lot of my republican colleagues attempt to distance themselves from the decision claiming that they unequivocally support ivf. but that's what they put in motion when they overturned roe v. wade. in fact a year ago senate democrats tried to pass senator duckworth's bill. senate republicans blocked it. so now it's clear. if colleagues really do support ivf, as so many were spending all weekend claiming then they're in luck. they're in luck because senator duckworth is going to give them an opportunity to prove it by going on the record and this evening supporting this legislation. and as i say to my friend from illinois i was thinking of coming over here today because back 30 years ago nobody ever

th have to be out here trying to get started and making sure families had nchlths but what you're doing is so incredibly important, senator duckworth, because with your legislation in america, we will have the necessary protections for women to become mothers using ivf. i u