Tammy Duckworth uses her IVF story to attack Republicans

Illinois Senate. Tammy Duckworth has been outspoken about her struggle with fertility in addition to her determination have her two daughters using IVF.

However, on Tuesday night Duckworth an ex- Army helicopter pilot, who was killed both legs during a 2004 rocket-propelled gun attack in Iraq she expressed it in the most direct of terms when she tried to define the broad implications that the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe in v. Wade two years ago.

“My struggle with infertility was more painful than any wound I earned on the battle field,” Duckworth declared.

It is believed that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that frozen embryos are not children and triggered an international debate on IVF. While Republicans were quick to highlight their support for the fertility treatments, Democrats have argued that every state is just 1 decision from having their Supreme Court deciding that IVF is not legal.

“But now Trump’s anti-American crusade has put other Americans’ right to have their own families at risk,” she wrote. “How dare the GOP endanger the dreams of countless veterans whose combat wounds prevent them from having kids without IVF.”

Trump and a majority of Republicans have expressed that they support IVF over the past few months. However, the more conservative segment of their base has grave ethical and religious issues with IVF in the way it is currently being practiced within the U.S., raising questions about where the Republican Party is headed in regarding this issue.

This June Senate Democrats required a vote to approve a law authored by Duckworth — which put Republicans such as JD Vance on record of opposing protections across the country for IVF. Two out of the Senate Republicans were against the legislation, arguing that it was too broad and threatened religious freedom or was unneeded.

“Together in November we’ll send a message to old cadet bone spurs,” she said, taking an attack on the condition that prevented Trump from being called up to the military during Vietnam. Vietnam War. “Stay out of our doctor’s offices and while you’re at it out of the Oval Office too.”