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ICYMI: ‘Sen. Rick Scott promises to protect IVF, his voting record says otherwise’
Yesterday, the American Journal again exposed Rick Scott’s desperate attempts to cover up his attacks on contraception and IVF treatment. Here are the facts: Rick Scott is spending millions to lie about voting against bipartisan legislation to protect access to contraception and IVF treatment.
Click here to read the article. See key excerpts below:
- On June 7, Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced a seven-figure ad campaign touting his pledge to protect access to in vitro fertilization. Less than a week later, he voted against a bill that would establish a statutory right to IVF for all Americans.
- In addition to creating federal protections for IVF, the legislation included provisions to make the treatments more affordable for working families. The bill, which required 60 votes to pass, faced near-unanimous opposition from Republicans, including Scott.
- This is not the first time Scott has waded into the IVF debate. On March 6, he introduced a resolution he said would protect access to IVF. The resolution merely expressed sympathy for families struggling with infertility but did nothing to codify IVF access into federal law.
- Scott has a history of opposing reproductive health care access more broadly. In 2020, he cosponsored a national 20-week abortion ban that would have imposed criminal penalties on doctors who perform the procedure.
- In April 2023, Scott endorsed a Florida law banning abortion after six weeks of gestation.
Since 2022, Scott’s political action committee has donated a total of $110,000 to Republican congresspeople who co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act. This legislation aims to ban abortion nationwide and could also restrict access to IVF. Among these lawmakers, Scott gave $10,000 to Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale, who recently proposed an amendment to a spending bill to prevent taxpayer funds from being used for fertility treatments like IVF.