Nation’s top health official to visit Alabama in wake of IVF ruling

FILE – Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration will send Becerra, the nation’s top health official, to meet with patients and doctors in Alabama on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, to discuss a controversial court ruling that upended in vitro fertilization treatment, or IVF, in the state. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)