“Pledged to support access to IVF and to fight any effort to restrict IVF treatments.”
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Both cited sources were fetched and verify the MISALIGNED outcome for this IVF promise. PRIMARY (Senate Roll Call Vote 82, 119th Congress): confirmed verbatim — Vote #82, Feb 21, 2025, S.Amdt. 971 to S.Con.Res. 7, described exactly as "protecting access to fertility services... by expanding nationwide coverage for in vitro fertilization," rejected 49-51, with Sheehy (R-MT) voting Nay. The cited quote appears verbatim. SECONDARY (Reproductive Freedom for All): confirmed in substance — 0% (2025) score, documents Sheehy voting against the Duckworth amendment to expand coverage for fertility treatment services including IVF; the cited quote is a light paraphrase of the page's framing but is not fabricated. The timeline claim holds: Sheehy was sworn in January 2025, after the 2024 Right to IVF Act cloture votes, so those correctly fall outside his record. The lone IVF-specific recorded action of his tenure — a Nay on a fertility-services reserve fund — runs counter to a pledge to "support access to IVF," supporting a MISALIGNED (acted somewhat against) rating. Distinguishing this from HOSTILE is defensible because the amendment was a non-binding budget messaging device rather than a substantive IVF restriction, and the near-party-line split (only Collins and Murkowski crossing over) frames it as procedural opposition to a Democratic funding vehicle. Confidence 0.6 is appropriate for a single soft-signal messaging vote standing as the only datapoint. Sources reachable, on-point, and the outcome does not overstate the evidence.
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