For Senator Duckworth, Preserving I.V.F. Access Is Personal NYT | Top Stories Maya C. Miller 18 September 2024 at 04:40 The Democratic senator has long pressed to safeguard the fertility treatment she used to conceive her children, which has now been thrust into the political conversation. © Tierney L. Cross for The New York TimesSenator Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, at the Capitol on Monday. “I didn’t mean to become an advocate,” she said in an interview. “I just wanted to not have anybody else go through what I did.”