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For decades, the U.S. fertility industry used rapid advancements in assisted reproductive technology (ART) to expand its American market with little to no oversight or regulation. A bill introduced in the Texas House on Thursday seeks to curb part of Big Fertility’s free rein by mandating that facilities that sell in vitro fertilization (IVF) submit an annual report to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission about the whereabouts of embryos that result.
The legislation, brought by Republican Rep. Daniel Alders of Tyler, Texas, requires licensed health care providers to tell the state how many total embryos they create each cycle and what happens to the embryos that aren’t implanted.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims
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