Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith listens during a news conference on Title 42 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 2022.Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked a bill that would establish a federal right to in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technology.came in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s February 16 ruling that embryos are children under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
Hyde-Smith said on the Senate floor Wednesday that the legislation would not just protect IVF but allow for human cloning, commercial surrogacy and gene editing, an interpretation disputed by Duckworth.
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