The Iowa House passed a personhood bill last week that would negatively impact the family building community. HF 2575 would provide criminal penalties for death or serious injury to an “unborn person,” defined “as an individual organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization to live birth.”
As we saw in Alabama, defining a fertilized egg or embryo as an “unborn person” can have a devastating impact on IVF care.
This threatening bill now heads to the Senate, where we must stop it.
Send this letter now to your State Senator. Let them know this legislation would interfere with infertility medical treatments and harm Iowans like you who are trying to build their families with IVF.
Don’t delay! It’s critical that you act now. It takes just minutes to send this email, and please encourage your friends and family who live in Iowa to act as well.
Don’t sit back and let others make laws that impact your family building! They need to hear from you!
Thank you for taking action to stop this anti-family bill!
You can see the email below:
Subject: Oppose Anti-Family Bill
Dear [Decision Maker],
I am your constituent and an advocate with RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association. Since 1974, RESOLVE has represented the millions of Americans who struggle to build a family.
I write today to urge you to oppose HF 2575, which defines fertilized eggs as persons with legal rights. The bill defines “unborn person” as “an individual organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization to live birth.”
As you saw in Alabama, similar language halted IVF care in the state. We must not let that happen here in Iowa.
For many of us, IVF is often the best pathway to a family. Medical conditions such as endometriosis, ovulation disorders, premature ovarian failure, and male factor are the primary causes of infertility. The American Medical Association, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the World Health Organization all recognize infertility as a disease. And cancer patients whose only hope lies in freezing embryos could be prevented from having biological children.
Please do not let this anti-family bill advance.
On behalf of my family, and all Iowans struggling to build their families, I urge you to remember people like me who need IVF to build our families and oppose HF 2575.
Sincerely,
