SCHUMER WILL BRING HUDSON VALLEY’S KATE FARLEY – A MOM EXPECTING HER 2ND CHILD THANKS TO IVF – AS HIS PERSONAL GUEST TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS; SENATOR VOWS TO PROTECT CRUCIAL ACCESS TO IVF & FIGHT HARD-RIGHT AGENDA RESTRICTING WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE

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“I am honored to bring Hudson Valley’s Kate Farley, a soon-to be second time mom thanks to the wonderful reality of in vitro fertilization, as my guest to President Biden’s State of the Union address. Like so many people across the country, Kate was unable to get pregnant due to a medical condition and IVF treatment allowed her to start a beautiful family that is now about to grow. But the radical right wing Republican attacks on women’s reproductive health care freedom is now threatening access to IVF. We know the importance of comprehensive reproductive healthcare for families across the country and yet, Republicans are trying to enact restrictions across the country on everything from abortion to contraception to IVF in a terrifying attempt to take away freedom of choice, but we will never let that stand. That is why I am privileged to bring Kate as my guest to help highlight the story of this Hudson Valley family for our entire nation, because it is a story like so many others across America, and it shows why these rights are absolutely essential.

In world created by the MAGA Republican Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe, women and families are living in fear that the Republican’s anti-reproductive, anti-freedom agenda are taking these choices away. Like Kate, there are countless people today who have the joy of children solely because of IVF and comprehensive reproductive healthcare, and no American trying to get pregnant should have to live in fear that their access to becoming a parent through in vitro fertilization could be taken away, or worry their fundamental rights could disappear tomorrow. I am proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with Kate who exemplifies the importance of IVF and reproductive healthcare. I will always fight to ensure New Yorkers and Americans have reproductive healthcare and am going to do everything I can to protect women, families, and reproductive freedom for people like Kate."

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