US Senate attempt to protect IVF access blocked by Mississippi Republican

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith rejects Access to Family Building Act, saying bill is vast overreach full of poison pills'

Senate Democrats' attempts to move forward a bill that would have granted Americans federal protections for in vitro fertilization access have failed.

The bill, sponsored by the Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth, came after a recent Alabama supreme court ruling that declared frozen embryos are children and led to the closure of multiple infertility clinics across the state.