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May 10, 2024Ahead of Mother’s Day, Duckworth Highlights Importance of IVF Access with IVF Parents and Providers
[CHICAGO, IL] - Ahead of Mother’s Day this weekend, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today hosted a listening session for IVF parents and providers to discuss their experiences and the barriers faced while trying to provide care for and grow their families. During today’s session, Duckworth highlighted the importance of passing her Access to Family Building Act, legislation that would protect access to IVF and other Assisted Reproductive Technology nationwide, while Republicans across the cou… Continue Reading
May 10, 2024Duckworth, Durbin Join Warren and 22 Senators in Push for Funding to the Office of Federal Student Aid
— U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) this week joined U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and 22 of their colleagues in the Senate in encouraging U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin—Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies—and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito—Ranking Member of the Subcommittee—to provide $2.7 billion in funding to the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) in fiscal year (… Continue Reading
May 10, 2024Duckworth Touts $150,000 in Federal Funding She Secured for Centro Romero
[CHICAGO, IL] - U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today visited Centro Romero to highlight and discuss the $150,000 federal investment she secured through a Fiscal Year 2024 Congressionally Directed Spending Request for the North Side non-profit refugee and immigrant assistance center. The funding Duckworth requested and successfully secured will help Centro Romero enhance their domestic violence counseling services, immigration legal services, after-school programming, public benefits access … Continue Reading
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March 27, 2024Senator Tammy Duckworth Is Demanding Rights for Disabled People
ELLE - Senator Tammy Duckworth still hasn’t seen Barbie. Last summer, she made headlines when she told Politico that a broken elevator prevented her and other wheelchair users from accessing a movie theater, ruining a planned outing with her daughters. That kind of thing happens to her a lot. When she’s home in Chicago, the Democratic senator from Illinois feels like she can’t even ride the L train, because she doesn’t know whether the station she’s traveling to is up-to-date on posting its acce… Continue Reading
March 26, 2024Why IVF looks different in the US than in the rest of the world
Earlier this month the Atlantic ran an opinion piece describing the American fertility industry as “strangely undeveloped” from a regulatory perspective. The two authors — a conservative political analyst and an anti-abortion bioethicist — claimed the landscape for assisted reproductive technology has left “parents, children, clinics and practitioners” without basic protections and safety guardrails. Their ominous arguments are part of a much older debate over whether the US fertility industry … Continue Reading
March 20, 2024Sen. Duckworth pushes for protection of IVF treatments
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Illinois U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-8th) is urging federal lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation to protect in-vitro fertilization treatment. "It comes about a month after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling briefly halted some procedures in the state. "When Alabama defined a fertilized egg to be a person, and their code defines murder as intentionally causing the death of a person, the intentional disposal of an embryo, even a non-viable one that could cause a miscarriag… Continue Reading
