Abstract
RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association was founded in 1974 to provide support
and information for women and men living with infertility. RESOLVE has worked to increase
access to care beginning with insurance coverage for infertility and more recently
in fighting anti-family legislation in many state legislatures. Beginning with the
Personhood ballot initiative in Colorado in 2008, RESOLVE and its grassroots advocates
have been called into action to fight legislative attempts to restrict access to all
family-building options, specifically in vitro fertilization. Personhood bills and
ballot initiatives would severely restrict access to infertility medical treatments
and prevent physicians from practicing medicine to the standard of care patients deserve.
Personhood defines a fertilized egg as a person and grants full rights of “personhood”
to a microscopic embryo. In addition to a growth in Personhood bills and ballot initiatives
since 2008, RESOLVE has also had to fight other anti-family bills that would impose
state government oversight and burdensome regulations on the practice of medicine
for people with infertility. The most successful medical treatments available for
people with infertility are under attack.
Keywords
RESOLVE - personhood - infertility - embryo
