Majority Of House Republicans Endorse Abortion Ban That Threatens IVF<\/p>\n
The Republican Study Committee, an influential group that comprises nearly 80% of House Republicans, released its budget<\/a> for fiscal year 2025, and it backed the Life at Conception Act<\/a>. The legislation would grant full legal rights to embryos from \u201cthe moment of fertilization,\u201d the same logic employed by the Alabama justices who effectively outlawed IVF in the state. The Senate version<\/a> of the bill had a carve-out to protect IVF, but the House version did not \u2014 meaning access to IVF would be vulnerable to restrictions if it were enacted.<\/p>\n Read more at HuffPost<\/a><\/p>\n House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security<\/p>\n The budget was released Wednesday by the Republican Study Committee<\/a>, a group of more than 170 House GOP lawmakers, including many allies of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Apart from fiscal policy, the budget endorses a series of bills \u201cdesigned to advance the cause of life,\u201d including the Life at Conception Act, which would aggressively restrict abortion and potentially threaten in vitro fertilization<\/a>, or IVF, by establishing legal protections for human beings at \u201cthe moment of fertilization.\u201d It has recently caused consternation<\/a> within the GOP following backlash to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that threatened IVF.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Majority Of House Republicans Endorse Abortion Ban That Threatens IVF The Republican Study Committee, an influential group that comprises nearly 80% of House Republicans, released its budget for fiscal year 2025, and it backed the Life at Conception Act. The legislation would grant full legal rights to embryos from \u201cthe moment of fertilization,\u201d the same … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104,137,54,304],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fetal-personhood","tag-gop","tag-ivf","tag-life-at-conception-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}