Scott Jennings Takes Lies Apart

CNN’s Scott Jennings pushed back against Democratic strategist Maria Cardona on Friday after she claimed that Republican lawmakers opposed in vitro fertilization (IVF) because they voted against a Senate measure on the issue.

In June, the Senate voted on the Right to IVF Act, with nearly all Republicans opposing it, as GOP senators had introduced their own competing legislation, according to The Associated Press.

During a discussion on “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” the panel debated the Republican Party’s stance on IVF. Cardona questioned why Republicans voted “against” the measure, leading Jennings to intervene.

“They didn’t vote against it. Hold on — let me jump in here. The vote in the Senate was a manufactured show vote by the Democrats. So that some person could go on television about this time of the year and make up a talking point about having a vote in the Senate. That’s all it was,” Jennings said. “Not a single Republican — from Donald Trump to any candidate for the Senate, House, anywhere at any serious level is running against IVF. Every Republican is running on what Trump has said, which is, ‘We’re the Republican Party, and we support families, and this technology helps people have families.’ Period. Everything else you hear about this from a Democrat is made up, and it is a scare tactic, and I don’t believe it’s going to work.”

The next time a dishonest Democrat hits you with some BS about Republicans voting against IVF, don’t take their garbage. I explained on @cnn today pic.twitter.com/sZWulYyd30

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 30, 2024

The debate over IVF became more heated in February after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered “extrauterine children.” In response to the ruling, Alabama’s state House and Senate passed legislation to safeguard the medical procedure.

In May, Republican Senators Katie Britt (R-AL)  and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the IVF Protection Act. However, when the bill was brought to the Senate floor in June, it was blocked by Democrats. They argued that the bill could “enact burdensome and unnecessary requirements and create the kind of legal uncertainty and risk that would force clinics to once again close their doors,” according to CNN.