Signed by Governor Kim Reynolds

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that prohibits fraud in assisted reproduction.

Highlights:

• Defines “assisted reproduction” as “a method of causing pregnancy other than sexual intercourse involving medical or scientific intervention” (Page 1).

• Prohibits engaging in “a practice or act the person knows or reasonably should have known provides false information to a patient related to an assisted reproduction procedure or treatment including false information” (Page 2).

• Authorizes private right of action for patient, spouse of patient, or child conceived through assisted reproduction (Page 3).

• Defines as sexual abuse in fourth degree: “when the health care professional uses or provides a patient with human reproductive material for assisted reproduction other than that to which the patient expressly consented in writing in violation of section 714I.3, subsection 2” (Page 5).

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