On Monday, Sens. Ted Cruz and Katie Britt unveiled their IVF Protection Act to ensure “IVF is fully protected at the federal level.” The bill would make states “ineligible to receive Medicaid funding if they have enacted an outright ban on access to IVF.”
Cruz touts the bill as being pro-life, as IVF offers “miraculous hope to millions of Americans, and it has given families across the country the gift of children.” Britt insists that “IVF is pro-family” and a “pathway to parenthood.”
In reality, IVF, and the Britt-Cruz attempt to protect it, victimizes children — both in terms of their right to life as well as their fundamental right to be known and loved by their mother and father. This bill is neither pro-life nor pro-family.
IVF Violates Children’s Right to Life
Despite their Wall Street Journal promise that this bill will “Protect Both Life and IVF,” Cruz dodged Annmarie Hordern’s “is an IVF embryo considered life at conception?” question. Instead, the senator assures us that “there is unanimity” in support for IVF among all 100 senators.
His deflection was necessary. Answering “yes, life begins at conception” would kill his bill faster than an embryo of the wrong sex at a fertility facility.
That’s because only a fraction of the tiny lives created through IVF will be born alive. Most will be purposely destroyed. According to a recent Heritage Foundation report, only 3 to 7 percent of embryonic children will make it through the IVF process alive. The vast
