The gold-leafed ceilings and crystal chandeliers of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort are a long way from the small town of Murdo, South Dakota, where Sen. John Thune grew up. But that’s where the senator found himself this spring as he launched a bid to become the next Senate Republican leader.

GOP Senators blocked a Democratic bill that would require public and private insurance to provide IVF coverage

Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump called himself a “ leader on IVF ” at the presidential debate, while drawing a comparison with Vice President Kamala Harris’ on women’s health issues.

For the second time in about three months, Republican and Democratic senators sparred over a set of in vitro fertilization bills in the nation’s capital. Republicans blocked Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-IL) Right to IVF Act on the same day Democrats blocked a GOP bill titled the IVF Protection Act.