AZ Infertility Patients Rights at Risk – Immediate Action Needed
Posted on February 13, 2010
In the State of Arizona, both the House and the Senate are going to hear bills on Wednesday, Feb. 17th that will impact egg donor availability. Below is an email from RESOLVE’s advocacy committee:
“The Arizona legislature is quickly pushing two bills — Senate Bill 1306 and House Bill 2651 – which will impose new and unprecedented restrictions on donor egg treatment for infertility. The Senate Public Safety and Human Services Committee will hold a hearing on February 17 with the House hearing any day now.
We need your help TODAY! If you live in Arizona please tell the Committee members that you, your friends, and family OPPOSE SB 1306 and HB 2651. Please click here to send a letter to Members of the House Health and Human Services Committee and click here to send a letter to the Senate Public Safety and Human Services Committee. (Note: you must send one letter to the House Committee and a second letter to the Senate Committee.)
SB 1306/ HB 2651 interferes with egg donor treatment by –
– outlawing the compensation traditionally provided to those who donate eggs for infertile couples;
– imposing burdensome and inaccurate informed consent obligations on doctors who offer donor egg treatment;
– threatening doctors with loss of their medical licenses if they fail to follow the new informed consents to the letter.
An additional set of bills, SB 1307 and HB 2652, may impair a physician’s ability to provide the best standard of care in reproductive medicine. These bills are a hasty attempt to regulate university research but could have a negative impact on the clinical care of patients.
Please let lawmakers know that we will not let them interfere with the care of infertility patients in Arizona. Men and women in Arizona who are trying to have a family deserve to be able to have all treatments available to them as is offered in any state in the U.S. Please urge them to vote NO on SB 1306 and HB / 2651 and NO on SB 1307 / HB 2652!
For complete information on these bills and to link to copies of the bills, visit RESOLVE’s website.
Thank you for Taking Action on this important legislation!”
Barbara Collura
Executive Director
RESOLVE
» Filed Under Infertility, Patient Advocacy, Womens Issues
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[...] it was brought to my attention by Kelly Damron that Arizona is going to be voting very soon on legislation that stands to impact the rights of [...]
Kelly,
Thank you for posting this information about important legislation pending in Arizona requiring immediate action… and making me aware of it offline so that I could post about it as well.
Endochick saw my post and wrote her own post. There, she makes an excellent point that if lawmakers are trampling on infertility patients’ rights now, other patients could be next in line. Who is to say anyone is immune to legislators who arbitrarily make up rules that burden doctors and violate patients’ rights to infertility treatment? Who is to say other patient groups are not in similar danger?
My hope is that we can help get the word out to as many people as possible so that Arizona residents will be made aware of this fast-moving legislation before it’s too late. The legislation is moving very swiftly and the faster people write in the better.
If anyone reading this knows an Arizona resident, please pass this information along to them.
Thank you!
Jeanne
P.S. If anyone reading this post has questions regarding how to install the RESOLVE badge on his/her site and link it to RESOLVE’s site on the legislation, please contact me and I will be happy to help!
[...] Damron is a tireless advocate for the infertility cause. She writes Twin Peas Blog and Podcast and was just interviewed regarding this issue. The video clip is [...]
Wishing guys the best of luck…
Thanks Anne. The bills passed the Senate and appear to be making their way quickly to the Governor. It is so sad. I really don’t think these legislatures know what they are voting on. They don’t understand the consequences to people trying to build their families.