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Booker", "B001288", "www.booker.senate.gov", "booker", "https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Patty Murray (D-WA) called out Senate Republicans\u2019 hypocrisy after nearly every single Republican blocked the Senate Democrats\u2019 Right to IVF Act\u2014now the second time they\u2019ve done so after first blocking the bill in June\u2014despite them publicly claiming to support IVF for the millions of Americans who rely on it to build their families. This was Senate Republicans\u2019 second chance to pass this pro-family, pro-freedom legislative package that would both establish a right to IVF and other assisted reproductive technology (ART), expand access for hopeful parents, Veterans and federal employees, as well as lower the costs of IVF for families across the country.\n\n\u201cFor a second time this summer, Senate Republicans voted to deny American families the fundamental right to make their own decisions about starting a family,\u201d said Senator Booker. \u201cI am disappointed to see the Right to IVF Act fail today and am disappointed that the majority of Senate Republicans voted against a legislative package to protect IVF despite publicly claiming over and over again that they support IVF. Democrats will continue fighting for all Americans\u2019 reproductive freedom and advocate for comprehensive reproductive health care that is affordable, accessible, and safe. The American people deserve that.\u201d\n\n\u201cRepublicans cannot claim to care about supporting families while voting against protections for IVF, but for the second time this year, they did just that,\u201d said Leader Schumer. \u201cInstead of standing with families struggling with infertility, they stood with Project 2025, showing once again just how strong a chokehold this extreme agenda has on Senate Republicans. Senate Democrats will not stop fighting to protect reproductive rights and access to IVF.\u201d\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s vote was Senate Republicans\u2019 chance to put their vote where their mouths are\u2014but instead, their true policy beliefs, hypocrisy and misogyny showed through,\u201d said Senator Duckworth. \u201cBy blocking my Right to IVF Act for the second time in just a few months, Republicans proved that when the rubber meets the road they will do anything to get out of actually passing legislation that would protect women\u2019s right to access reproductive care. On behalf of every woman who has faced the heart-shattering struggle of infertility, all I can say to my Republican colleagues is: Shame on you.\u201d\n\n\u201cTrump doesn\u2019t get credit for opposing a problem that he caused in the first place, especially when his party\u2014the party he leads\u2014won\u2019t let us solve it,\u201d said Senator Murray. \u201cThe entire country just saw, plain as day, that Donald Trump is lying again and that nothing has changed for Republicans since they overturned Roe v. Wade. Nothing has changed for Republicans despite Trump\u2019s imaginary leadership on IVF. But Democrats are not going to stop pushing and I have a message for my Republican colleagues who think they can talk about this issue, make big promises to desperate families\u2014like Trump\u2019s promise to cover IVF treatment\u2014and then fail to follow through: that promise may just be an empty soundbite to Donald Trump, but it is so personal to families, and those families have been listening to your words, they saw how you voted today, and they will not forget it.\u201d\n\nAhead of today\u2019s vote on their Right to IVF Act, Senators Booker, Schumer, Duckworth, and Murray joined Senate Democrats for a press conference to underscore the urgent need to pass the Right to IVF Act as Republicans continue their anti-choice, anti-science crusade. 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