Katie Britt in national spotlight with response to State of the Union
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Sen. Britt is the youngest female Republican elected to the U.S. Senate, and serves as part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's leadership team.
Sitting behind a table in Alabama, Republican Sen. Katie Britt, 42, delivered the much-anticipated response to President Joe Biden's critical election year State of the Union address on Thursday night.
Sen. Britt's age is significant. She is the youngest elected Republican woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, and serves on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's leadership team, sitting on the covered Appropriations Committee. She stands poised to ascend to greater prominence as Sen. McConnell, 82, announced in late February that he plans to step down from his position as the country enters into 2025. He has been the longest-serving Senate leader in the history of the Untied States.
Sen. Britt, delivering remarks from an undisclosed part of the state, spoke as her state faced weeks of national scrutiny after a legal decision ruling that embryos were children caused panic among providers of in vitro fertilization services.
It was a jarring series of moves from lawmakers in the state and courts that caused three major IVF providers to pause services, after an Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a storage facility could pursue wrongful death lawsuits for their "extrauterine children," the Associated Press reported.
The ruling raised concerns about civil liabilities for clinics.
