Rebecca O’Connor, director of American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s Center for Policy and Leadership, will be U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin’s guest at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address Thursday.
O’Connor is a reproductive rights advocate and IVF expert and a mother of two IVF 12-year-old daughters. She is a resident of Raskin’s 8th District.
“I’m delighted that Rebecca O’Connor will join me at President Biden’s State of the Union Address and bring her remarkable expertise in reproductive health care policy and her personal family experience with IVF to Capitol Hill,” said Raskin.
“Rebecca and I share with President Biden the belief that reproductive rights are basic human rights and the conviction that America must protect essential health care services like IVF and abortion against the kind of theocratic agendas and political repression you read about in the Handmaid’s Tale,” he said.
O’Connor has held leadership roles in many organizations, including the Parkinson’s Action Network and the District of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
U.S. Rep. David Trone’s guest will be his son, Rob. Previously, Trone (D-6th) brought his daughters.
