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News Articles: IVF

A damaged building is seen after an explosion in Palm Springs, Calif., on Saturday.

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  • National

FBI says primary suspect in Calif. fertility clinic bombing likely died in the blast

Investigators have identified Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, as the primary suspect in the explosion that injured four others.

May 18, 2025
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp speaks at the March for Life held outside the state Capitol on March 6, 2025.

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  • Politics

Kemp signs in vitro fertilization bill and others at Savannah convention center

After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, many states, including Georgia, moved to protect IVF.

May 01, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during a media tour and grand opening at the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, March 26, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga.

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  • News

Lawmakers Huddle: A recap of Georgia legislative session Week 11

As Georgia lawmakers near the end of the session, bills on pay raises, DEI restrictions, and IVF protections dominate Week 11 under the Gold Dome. 

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Pamela Kirkland and
  • Donna Lowry
This photo shows the fertility clinic operated by Coastal Fertility Specialists where a woman is suing the clinic, saying it impregnated her with another couple's embryo when she underwent in vitro fertilization, in 2023, in Savannah, Ga., on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025.

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  • News

Woman sues fertility clinic, saying she gave birth to another patient's baby

A woman is suing the fertility clinic that helped her get pregnant using in vitro fertilization two years ago, saying she gave birth to another patient's child after doctors transferred the wrong embryo to her. Krystena Murray says she still wants to raise the baby boy, who she gave birth to in December 2023. She gave up the child after his biological parents demanded custody last year.

February 19, 2025
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  • Associated Press
IVF is a process that involves retrieving eggs from ovaries, fertilizing them with sperm in a lab, and then transferring embryos into the uterus.

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  • Health

Trump wants to lower the cost of IVF. A new executive order seeks ideas to do that

President Trump campaigned on lowering the cost of IVF, after a controversial ruling made the treatment stop in Alabama for a short time.

February 19, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Diane Webber
Maggie Loucks was just 28 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She chose a treatment plan, new at the time, that could safeguard her fertility. Today, Loucks, 40, and her husband have three daughters.

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  • Health

She wanted to be a mom. So she chose a cancer treatment that gave her a chance

New, less damaging treatments are giving some patients the choice to try to preserve their ability to have children after cancer.

February 12, 2025
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
 Rep. Lehman Franklin is a Statesboro Republican who plans to file a bill that would protect access to in-vitro fertilization in Georgia. He and his wife are expecting their first child, who was conceived through IVF. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder (2023 file photo)

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  • Politics

Proposal to protect access to IVF reproductive treatments in Georgia gains bipartisan support

A new bipartisan proposal would put protection for in-vitro fertilization access into Georgia code after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling temporarily shut down clinics there and created uncertainty nationally.

February 12, 2025
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  • Jill Nolin
Anti-abortion activists march through downtown Atlanta Friday as part of the Georgia Stand for Life march. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Both sides in Georgia’s reproductive rights debate ready for fight over new state IVF laws

Advocates on both sides of the fight over access to reproductive rights are gearing up for an expected debate this year over whether and how lawmakers should create new protections for access to in-vitro fertilization.

January 27, 2025
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  • Jill Nolin
In vitro fertilisation, computer artwork.

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  • Health

Politicians say health plans should cover IVF. Currently only 1 in 4 employers do

This election, the future of health coverage for fertility treatments has been a hot political issue. A new report highlights what coverage looks like for American workers right now.

October 10, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ., accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, left, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., right, speaks about the need to protect rights to in vitro fertilization (IVF), before Senate vote on the issue.

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  • Politics

Senate Republicans block IVF bill, as Democrats elevate issue ahead of November election

Senate Republicans blocked a bill to ensure federal protections for access to in vitro fertilization treatments, calling it a "show" vote by Democrats. Republican leaders and Former President Trump, the GOP nominee for president, say they back IVF but not the legislation proposed by Democrats.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) speaks during a town hall meeting moderated by former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard at La Crosse Center in La Crosse, Wisc., on Aug. 29, 2024.

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  • Politics

Trump says he'll support free IVF treatments in a second term

Former President Donald Trump told crowds in Wisconsin and Michigan that he would make IVF treatment free if he wins a second term. “I was always for IVF," Trump told them.

August 30, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon,
  • Clay Masters,
  • and 1 more
Minnesota Gov. and 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz speaks on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 21.

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  • Elections

Tim Walz is a new kind of reproductive rights messenger

People in politics have shared their experiences with infertility, including Michelle Obama and Mike Pence. But men haven't been as open about it on the campaign trail like Walz has.

August 27, 2024
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By:
  • Jeongyoon Han
 Jacqueline Brock underwent seven years of fertility treatments before a third round of IVF produced two embryos, and one healthy pregnancy. Now, Brock and her husband worry their options could be limited for the remaining embryo amidst a push to give rights to fetuses that are generally ascribed to a person.

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  • Health

The push for embryo rights in state legislatures worries IVF patients and doctors

13 states introduced bills this year that could give rights to embryos and fetuses associated with people. None passed yet but IVF patients and doctors fear such laws could limit fertility treatment.

June 04, 2024
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By:
  • Natalie Krebs
Anti-abortion activists who describe themselves as "abolitionists" protest outside a fertility clinic in North Carolina in April 2024.

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  • Politics

Republicans try to soften stance on abortion as 'abolitionists' go farther

Activists who describe themselves as "abortion abolitionists" want to charge women who have abortions with homicide and ban the fertility treatment known as IVF, saying life begins at conception.

May 21, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Eric Portenga and Kevin O'Neill with daughters Sylvie, Robin and Parker O'Neill celebrating the girls' 2nd birthday in Sept. 2023. The babies' surrogate lived in Ohio because of Michigan's laws, that are changing now.

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  • Health

As Michigan legalizes surrogacy, here's how families found ways around the ban

Michigan was the last state to criminally ban using a paid surrogate to have a child. Now that will change under a law signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday.

April 02, 2024
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  • Kate Wells
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