Protecting Access to IVF: Opposing Barriers Disguised as “Ethical IVF”
At RESOLVE, we believe every person deserves access to the family building care that meets their needs. Infertility is a disease, and people should be able to make deeply personal decisions about their care in consultation with their doctors—not politicians.
When legislators voice their support for “ethical IVF” but provide no real definition, RESOLVE believes this is an effort to impose a subjective, personal value system on fertility care. This is dangerous for patients because that implies that today’s safe, effective, and patient-centered treatments are somehow unethical. This is out of step with modern medicine and the way care is accessed today.
Every person’s fertility journey is unique. Patients must have the ability to access care that aligns with their personal and medical needs. Efforts to redefine and regulate IVF based on ideology, rather than science, create unnecessary barriers to care, making the IVF process even more out of reach to people in need.
RESOLVE supports policies that make fertility care more accessible, safer, and improve outcomes—not those that create unnecessary barriers, and worsen outcomes.
We oppose attempts to regulate IVF that would:
- Limit patient choice/preference in fertility treatments
- Restrict providers from offering best-practice care
- Reduce access to treatment by creating legal uncertainties
- Force one-size-fits-all policies that ignore individual patient needs
- Restrict patient autonomy over their body, gametes, and embryos
- Interfere with the doctor-patient relationship
For decades, IVF has provided a chance at parenthood to millions of people facing infertility. Patients must continue to have the right to make informed choices about their medical care, free from government overreach. RESOLVE stands against any regulation that undermines patient autonomy, medical science, and access to care.
Join us in protecting access to IVF and the right of every person to build their family in a way that’s right for them.
