Access To Family Building Bill Looks To Federally Protect IVF

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Excerpt: “On January 18, 2024, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and U.S. Congresswoman Susan Wild, D-Pa., introduced a bill called the Access to Family Building Act. The bill’s purpose is to permit health care providers to provide, and for patients to receive, additional certainty when it comes to medical benefits and assisted reproductive technology services. Those services include things like IVF, which is a critical family-building tool for parents throughout the United States. The bill is aimed at reducing requirements that are more burdensome than limitations or requirements imposed on medically comparable procedures, that do not significantly advance reproductive health or the safety of such services, or that unduly restrict access to such services.”

Ellen Trachman is the Managing Attorney of Trachman Law Center, LLC, and a regular contributor to the ‘AboveTheLaw’ platform.