
Last week, Republicans in Congress introduced the IVF Protection Act. The claimed goal is to ensure that states do not ban the “pro-woman and pro-family” in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure through which over 2 percent of all babies in the U.S. are born each year. Their political efforts to pander to suburban voters are a fool’s errand and intellectually incoherent. Earlier this year, Republicans also introduced a Life at Conception Act, which has the potential to make IVF riskier, more expensive and less effective.