Immediate Action Needed in Kansas to Protect Infertility Patients!

The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee plans to hold a hearing on March 11 on Senate Bill 509 – a bill that would interfere with the medical treatment for infertility in the state of Kansas. RESOLVE and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) strongly oppose the bill.

RESOLVE is asking Kansans who care about privacy and access to the best care possible to let the Senate Committee members know TODAY that you oppose SB 509!

First, please send a letter to the Committee members. To send a letter immediately, click here. It takes less than 5 minutes to send a letter. Please consider personalizing your letter by sharing some of your story.

Second, come to the Senate hearing on Thursday, March 11 in Topeka, KS. If you are able to attend, please contact RESOLVE at info@resolve.org for exact details on the location and time of the Committee hearing. At the hearing, the Committee will hear testimony both for and against the bills. The hearing is open to the public and RESOLVE encourages you to come to show your opposition to this bill. If you are interested in testifying, please contact RESOLVE at info@resolve.org and we will help you prepare your testimony.

More on Senate Bill 109

The Bill would interfere with infertility treatment in these ways:
1. It would authorize vast, new Governmental surveillance of infertility patients, their treatment, their eggs, and their embryos. No other disease is subjected to this kind of Governmental scrutiny.
2. The surveillance would be non-consensual – you could not opt out of having your private information (even information if you have a miscarriage) collected by the Government.
3. It would permit essentially ANYONE to gain access to the pooled information about us patients and publish it in ways that are unfair and exploitative.
4. It would make treatment and agency costs far more expensive, and discourage doctors and donor egg and surrogacy firms from practicing in Kansas.

For more detailed analysis of the bills, visit RESOLVE’s website.

The Bill has nothing to do with protection of infertility patients. It has nothing to do with making care better, safer or more accessible. It is only about this: making medical treatment for infertility less available, less private, and more open to exploitation by those who oppose it.

We at RESOLVE believe that our families and our future families should not be used as pawns in a political chess match. We will not allow the treatment for our disease to be politicized. Fertility patients deserve the same right to privacy as any other patient. We should not be singled out as undeserving of the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship.