EXCLUSIVE — Leading Republicans in the Senate are seeking greater clarity on in vitro fertilization as access to the treatment has become a flashpoint in reproductive health debates ahead of the 2024 election.
Led by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee ranking member Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Republicans sent a letter on Thursday to the Department of Health and Human Services asking that it audit the safety standards of IVF and other assisted reproductive technology, or ART, clinics across the country.
The letter and Senate conflict over IVF comes after a high-profile case from Alabama in which a hospital patient wandered into the facility’s cryogenic nursery through an unsecured doorway and destroyed five embryos intended for IVF.
