Purposes

The purposes of this Act are as follows: (1) To permit patients to seek and receive fertility treatment, including assisted reproductive technology services, and to permit health care providers that choose to provide fertility treatment, to provide such services without States enacting harmful or unwarranted limitations or requirements that single out the provision of assisted reproductive services for restrictions that are not consistent with widely accepted and evidence-based medical standards of care, and which do not significantly advance reproductive health or the efficacy and safety of fertility treatment, or make fertility treatment more difficult to access. (2) To promote the right and ability of a patient residing in any State to choose to receive fertility treatment provided in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based medical standards of care by a health care provider who chooses to provide such services. (3) To protect an individual’s right to make decisions, in consultation with the individual's health care provider, about the most appropriate medical care to maximize the chance of becoming pregnant and giving birth to a healthy, living, human child with the help of fertility treatment.