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Protect Family Building Rights in Arizona
On behalf of the more than 100,000 women and men in Arizona who are contending with infertility, we ask you to vote no on Senate bill 1306 and Senate bill 1307 because they will make infertility treatment less available and less effective.
SB1306 imposes unprecedented and unnecessary informed consent requirements. The penalties are severe: if a physician does not follow the new rules to the letter, he could wind up losing his license to practice medicine, being convicted of a Class 1 misdemeanor (the most serious class), and face 6 months in prison.
SB 1306 also casts other common medical practices into question: Will physicians be allowed to freeze and thaw eggs for preservation, a common practice? Can physicians screen for genetic defects?
Physicians will no longer treat patients who need egg donation as a means to build their families in Arizona, driving these couples out of state to seek treatment.
SB1307 is cleverly disguised as a cloning and human/animal hybrid bill.
“The medical community working in this field strongly believes that [SB 1307] would prohibit:
• Training of new infertility specialists and embryologists.
• Practices that allow embryologists to screen embryos for genetic disease.
• Practices such as Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis that select only healthy embryos from genetically challenged couples, avoiding miscarriage and health risks.
• Screening to select only the most viable embryos for transfer allowing doctors to transfer one or two embryos. This reduces the need for multiple embryos that lead to high-order multiples and premature birth."
With a class 6 felony and loss of license to practice, no physician in Arizona would dare take that chance. They would no longer be able to help Arizona couples have families.
"If this bill passes, doctors will leave Arizona and so will patients.”
Protect the right of infertile couples to build a family. Vote NO on SB1306 and SB1307.
SB1306 imposes unprecedented and unnecessary informed consent requirements. The penalties are severe: if a physician does not follow the new rules to the letter, he could wind up losing his license to practice medicine, being convicted of a Class 1 misdemeanor (the most serious class), and face 6 months in prison.
SB 1306 also casts other common medical practices into question: Will physicians be allowed to freeze and thaw eggs for preservation, a common practice? Can physicians screen for genetic defects?
Physicians will no longer treat patients who need egg donation as a means to build their families in Arizona, driving these couples out of state to seek treatment.
SB1307 is cleverly disguised as a cloning and human/animal hybrid bill.
“The medical community working in this field strongly believes that [SB 1307] would prohibit:
• Training of new infertility specialists and embryologists.
• Practices that allow embryologists to screen embryos for genetic disease.
• Practices such as Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis that select only healthy embryos from genetically challenged couples, avoiding miscarriage and health risks.
• Screening to select only the most viable embryos for transfer allowing doctors to transfer one or two embryos. This reduces the need for multiple embryos that lead to high-order multiples and premature birth."
With a class 6 felony and loss of license to practice, no physician in Arizona would dare take that chance. They would no longer be able to help Arizona couples have families.
"If this bill passes, doctors will leave Arizona and so will patients.”
Protect the right of infertile couples to build a family. Vote NO on SB1306 and SB1307.
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