And I am committed to helping veterans who sustained injuries during their military service that prevent them from conceiving children to get access to advanced fertility treatments and adoption services.
Help veterans injured during military service access advanced fertility treatments and adoption services.
Occurrences
Evidence
Axios reported that Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Rick Larsen reintroduced legislation to require VA and DoD to expand coverage for fertility care such as IVF.
Axios reported that Rep. Rick Larsen joined House Democrats introducing the Right to IVF Act, a package to expand IVF access.
AP reported that Senate Republicans blocked the Right to IVF Act in a procedural vote, so the proposal did not advance.
Assessments
Larsen appears to have made serious legislative efforts to advance the promise, including reintroducing legislation to expand VA and DoD fertility coverage for veterans and joining the Right to IVF Act package. But the evidence provided shows advocacy and bill introduction only, not enactment or implemented policy, and one key related IVF measure was procedurally blocked in the Senate. There is also no evidence here that adoption-service access for injured veterans was delivered. Under the federal credit rule, this supports substantial effort but not fulfillment of the promised outcome.