Congressman Dan Goldman supports the Access to Family Building Act, a federal bill aimed at protecting women’s access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.
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U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-Manhattan, Brooklyn) has entered the ring in the fight to protect in vitro fertilization (IVF) with the introduction of the Access to Family Building Act on Monday.
Goldman announced the bill alongside U.S. Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pennsylvania). They are the latest in a slew of elected officials, mostly Democrats, who are introducing and supporting legislation to protect the right to use in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments.
The push to protect IVF has been ongoing since an Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that embryos are considered children — a move that further endangers access to reproductive healthcare and family planning in the United States.
Goldman and Wild introduced the Access to Family Building Act in an attempt to establish a federal right to access IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART) services. Such a federal law would block any state push to limit IVF or criminalize doctors who provide the treatment.
Goldman said the federal act would supersede Alabama’s state ruling, “ensuring that women across the country retain the right” to use IVF or other ART services. He also alluded to the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022 as a catalyst for political movements that “go after” reproductive freedoms.
“Republicans’ war on women did not end with the Dobbs decision, and the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling made it abundantly clear that they will go after all reproductive freedoms in their effort to attack women’s bodily autonomy,” Goldman said. “They want to force women who do not want children to have them and prevent women who desperately want a family from being able to. IVF is a lifeline for families facing infertility and Congress must ensure that…
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