Mike Rogers refuses to protect IVF in the Senate, won’t answer about his record co-sponsoring four anti-IVF bills
LANSING — Today’s Senate vote on the bill to protect access to IVF is a stark reminder that Mike Rogers has an extensive and dangerous anti-abortion record. In Congress, Rogers co-sponsored four bills that “attempt[ed] to ban IVF” by defining personhood as the moment of fertilization. The bills that he co-sponsored would’ve had “the same effect as the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling” and “could restrict or effectively ban IVF,” ripping away Michiganders’ freedom to make personal decisions.
Rogers refuses to commit to supporting legislation to protect IVF and refuses to answer questions about the four anti-IVF bills that he co-sponsored in Congress.
Rogers has faced scrutiny over his “past support for the personhood bills” that makes it “even worse” for him. Michigan reporters have called out Rogers for being in a “sticky wicket” as he “scramble[s]” and “punt[s]” questions about his anti-IVF “voting record.”
Justin Amash has “a litany of anti-abortion votes that are in-lock step with the most extreme members of his party” including co-sponsoring “legislation to strictly regulate in vitro fertilization.”
Sandy Pensler called Roe v. Wade “terrible” and “tyrannical,” and said he has “the same position on being pro-life as President Reagan and President Trump.”
See also: Michigan Advance: ‘Republicans have put the rights of a fertilized egg over the rights of the woman’, Business Insider: GOP politicians are saying they’ve always cared about IVF. Bills they’ve supported indicate otherwise, The Gander: Mike Rogers tries to distance Senate campaign from past attempts to ban IVF, American Journal News: Michigan GOP senate candidate Justin Amash voted to restrict IVF, Michigan Independent: Meet Sandy Pensler, the pro-Trump Republican who just joined the Michigan Senate race.
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