Senate Democrats call out the Trump administration for hypocrisy on IVF

More than a dozen Democratic senators are demanding the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission abandon plans to roll back protections for workers seeking fertility treatments, according to a letter shared first with MS NOW.

In the letter sent to EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas on Monday night, the senators — including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. — say Lucas’ plan could undermine “critical protections for workers undergoing fertility treatments,” in violation of President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization, also known as IVF.

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