During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing chaired Wednesday by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), lawmakers debated both abortion and in vitro fertilization (IVF), a procedure in which a human egg is fertilized in a laboratory, then transferred to a woman’s uterus.
This was the third in a series of hearings exploring abortion issues since June 2022, when the Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.
“Fallout of the Dobbs Decision has been devastating. Women with nonviable, life-threatening pregnancies have been denied access to medical care,” Mr. Durbin said in his opening statement….
