(The Center Square) – Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, joined 29 other Democratic senators to introduce a bill granting all Americans access to in-vitro fertilization procedures.
IVF is a “procedure that involves fertilizing an egg with sperm in a laboratory dish,” according to Yale Medicine.
The Protect IVF Act seeks to allow patients to have access to IVF services, doctors who provide IVF treatment and insurance companies that will cover IVF.
To enshrine this into federal law, the legislation prevents states from outlawing IVF. Last year, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled to temporarily suspend IVF procedures.
Addressing this concern, Rosen said, “No family should have to fear losing access to IVF.”
“The Protect IVF Act ensures that Americans — regardless of where they live — can access the medical care they need to build their families. This bill defends both reproductive freedom and basic human dignity,” the senator added.
This will be the second time the bill has been introduced. In 2024, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, brought forth this piece of legislation. However, the bill never made it out of the Senate.
Upon introducing it another time, Duckworth said if President Donald Trump cares about protecting IVF, he should tell Republicans to support her bill. If he doesn’t, she said Republicans’ “pro-IVF talk” will be “lip-service from people who have no interest in actually taking any meaningful action to protect IVF access.”
In February, Trump signed an executive order that aimed at lowering the cost of IVF.
When the original bill was introduced, pro-life groups, such as Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, had concerns about it. The organization came out against the legislation, calling it a “sweeping-anything-goes bill that would even codify a right to human cloning and genetic engineering of human embryos.”
On the other side, organizations such as RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association supported the bill last year. RESOLVE said many people who struggle with infertility want to pursue medical treatment to build families, but face “many obstacles.” The organization called the bill a “pro-family” piece of legislation.
RESOLVE is supporting the 2025 legislation, along with other organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign and Indivisible.
