Duckworth became an advocate for expanding access to fertility treatments after using IVF to conceive two children. For Tammy Duckworth, the personal and the political are intertwined.

Tammy Duckworth of Illinois ... Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through IVF should be considered children, making the discarding of embryos a crime. A month later, Alabama Gov.

Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., waves to the crowd during ... the ranks of the military as a young woman, she put off having children until she was 50 to prioritize her career. After a series of in ...