In 2025, we face state legislation that could have major impacts on patients’ access to reproductive care and fertility treatment.
Here’s what YOU can do.
Join the cause with TRM
Contact Drs. Jessica Scotchie & Rink Murray to participate in future conversations with state legislators.
Collaborate with RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association
#NIAW2025: April 20-26, 2025
FightForFamilies.Resolve.org
Share on social media: NIAW Challenge
Federal Advocacy Day
Attend the virtual meeting: May 20, 2025.
Co-sponsored by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Other advocacy opportunities & news
Speak up & reach out to state representatives
It takes five minutes to call and/or send an email. It can take a lifetime to undo dangerous laws.
OUR VOICES MATTER
Fertility legislation to watch & lend your voice to
Several Tennessee legislative efforts could either protect and enhance fertility treatment and reproductive rights… or put access to care at risk.
Updated on April 16, 2025
HJR 0007, “Personhood at Fertilization Resolution”
- Purpose: Defines embryos as people.
ALERT:
- This resolution puts IVF treatment at risk, could severely restrict successful IVF treatment and result in many legal challenges for fertility patients – past and present.
HB 0533, “Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act”
- Purpose: Establishes the right to fertility treatment & services.
STATUS: PASSED
- Minor amendments pending final Senate approval before becoming law.
- Notably passed WITHOUT the addition of Amendment HA0312, which would have added the language “human life begins at fertilization,” defining embryos as people and jeopardizing the IVF industry in Tennessee. Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine strongly opposed this amendment.
SB 0463, “Freedom to Grow Our Tennessee Families Act”
- Purpose: Requires insurance companies to cover fertility care & preservation services.
HB 0027, “Reproductive Freedom Act”
- Purpose: Protects the fundamental right of patients to make decisions about their reproductive health care.
HB 0945, “Amends Tennessee Code Annotated Related to Assisted Reproductive Technology ”
- Purpose: Prohibits preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) and strictly limits the number of eggs IVF centers can fertilize for patients, among other restrictions.
STATUS: Failed