Congressman Loudermilk is fighting to restrict IVF
- Chris Harden for Congress
- Dec 5, 2025
- 1 min read
According to Senator Tammy Duckworth, that despite bipartisan agreement for the National Defense Authorization Act, House Speaker Mike Johnson is working to gut a provision mandating health care coverage for assisted reproductive technology, including IVF, for all active-duty service members.
It should be noted that reproductive assistance will still be covered under Mike Johnson, the rest of congress and their staff’s insurance coverage.
So why shouldn’t the active military and veterans not have the same health insurance coverage as members of Congress and their staff? Why isn’t our military personnel entitled to the same reproductive rights as Congress?
They fight for our country AND have to fight for health coverage too? That doesn’t seem fair.
Meanwhile, Congressman Loudermilk is trying to create “life at conception” legislations that ultimately would result in the ban of IVF because the process often involves the creation and potential discarding or donation of unused embryos, which would become legally complicated if embryos were granted full legal personhood.
This is what happens when non-lawyers try to write legislation. They don’t understand or can’t see the unintended consequences. Or maybe they know exactly what they’re doing with such legislation…
