hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. senate democrats are trying to push through legislation to protect ivf treatments, in response to the alabama supreme courts ruling that embryos are people. lots going on either side of the pond on reproductive rates. but, in the wake of the alabama supreme courts ruling that embryos are people, senate democrats are putting down a bill to protect ivf treatments. the illinois senator tammy duckworth is daring republicans to obstruct legislation which would establish a federal right to ivf and other fertility treatments that are at risk in the post roe era. senator duckworth is an iraq war veteran who suffered grave injuries in combat in 200a. her two children were conceived through ivf. the bill she has proposed would require unanimous consent in orderfor it to pass, and although many republican lawmakers have registered disappointment over the alabama ruling, at least one conservative senator is expected to