Purposes

The purposes of this title are as follows: (1) To permit patients to seek and receive assisted reproductive technology (ART), including in vitro fertilization (IVF), and intrauterine insemination (IUI), and to permit health care providers that choose to provide ART or IUI to provide such services, by ensuring that States will not enact harmful or unwarranted limitations or requirements that single out the provision of ART or IUI for restrictions that are not consistent with American Society for Reproductive Medicine guidelines and that do not significantly advance reproductive health or the efficacy and safety of ART or IUI, or that make ART or IUI more difficult to access. (2) To promote the right and ability of an individual residing in any State to choose to receive ART or IUI provided 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 ART or IUI.