Fresh off winning her primary, Republican California Congresswoman Michelle Steel on Thursday told the House she does “not support federal restrictions on IVF” and she’s removing herself from her sponsorship of the Life at Conception Act, NBC News reports.
“I’m removing myself from the bill because it could create confusion about my support for the blessings of having children through IVF. I hereby remove my name as cosponsor,” Steel said after catching a lot of shit for conceiving it and then coming up with a lame, non-binding resolution to affirm support for protecting IVF. Her likely Dem opponent Derek Tran kept the pressure up.
“Michelle Steel just admitted she’s been lying to every one of her constituents about her abortion-banning, IVF-restricting legislation,” Tran told NBC in a written statement. “She can try to explain this away all she wants, but Californians see her exactly for who she is – a reproductive right-dismantling extremist who has no business representing the interests of California’s 45th District.”