Browsing: IVF

A pathbreaking case asks why a progressive city won’t help some men start families.

An Alabama hospital said it plans to stop offering in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments at the end of this year due to “litigation concerns” surrounding the therapy.  Mobile Infirmary said “it will no longer be able to offer” IVF services in a news release on Wednesday. The decision follows Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that people…

In a memo exclusively seen by The Hill on Tuesday, Florida Democratic Senate candidate and former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) described two significant decisions on abortion from the state’s Supreme Court as a “game changer” for the Sunshine State’s Senate race in November. Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign also said incumbent Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) was “vulnerable” on abortion and tied…

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Sunday criticized the GOP’s approach to reproductive rights and said the party should work harder to understand where average Americans stand on these issues. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Dana Bash asked Lawler — one of just a handful of House Republicans to support legislation to…

Their aim is to make the process of IVF so challenging that no one will practice it anymore.

Four House Freedom Caucus members criticized IVF as morally questionable and argued that it should not be funded by taxpayers.

A Democratic group that works to expand party control within state Capitols is arguing in a new memo that state legislatures are the “arbiters of reproductive freedom.”  Heather Williams, president of Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), said in a new memo that “we are always just one Supreme Court decision away from a state law…

A North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that someone acting as a parent cannot be required to pay child support in the state without being the actual parent or without signing a formal agreement. A split three-judge panel reversed a ruling from a local judge that stated that the ex-partner of a child’s mother…

Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.) announced on Wednesday that he was joining as a sponsor for a bill to safeguard access for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments, making him the first Republican to support the care. In a statement, Molinaro said he would be cosponsoring the Access to Family Building Act, with Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.). It had companion legislation introduced in…

This marked the first attempt of simultaneous reciprocal IVF in the UK.