Media Alert
Oklahoma Infertility Physicians and Patients to Explain Their Opposition to SB 1433 and HJR 1067 (Personhood Legislation)
WHEN: Friday February 24, 2012
WHERE: Oklahoma State Capitol Room 432B (Capitol Press Room) at 1:00pm
... SUBJECT: Medical professionals and patients opposing Personhood legislation (SB 1433 and HJR 1067)
WHO:
Atlee Breland (Mississippi): Founder of Parents against Personhood, infertility patient and mother of three; leader of Parents Against MS26, a grassroots organization integral to the defeat of Mississippi’s personhood ballot initiative in November 2011.
Dana Stone, MD (Oklahoma City): Obstetrician-gynecologist in private practice.
Eli Reshef, MD (Oklahoma City): Reproductive specialist, Medical Director, Bennett Fertility Institute.
Oklahoma Patients with Infertility.
“Personhood” legislation”, giving any biological entity from a fertilized egg on the status of a person, has been introduced this year in the Oklahoma legislation as SB 1433 (Crain, Billy) and HJR 1067 (Reynolds). The medical community and patients view such legislation as dangerous, carrying a broad range of destructive consequences to health care in Oklahoma, particularly devastating to infertility treatments.
Personhood legislation will criminalize the practice of complex infertility treatments, including the handling of embryos in the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process. Infertility affects 10-12% of all couples in Oklahoma. For many of them, IVF is the only procedure become parents. IVF, as practiced to the current standard of care, will leave physicians open to criminal prosecution if embryos are classified as legal “persons” Doctors providing IVF will consequently stop offering IVF treatments for fear of criminal prosecution and couples living with infertility in our state will be denied the opportunity to build their families.
The Oklahoma medical community, including the Oklahoma State Medical Association, as well as national organizations (including the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American College of Obstetrician-gynecologists, and RESOLVE :The National Infertility Association), strongly oppose Personhood legislation.
Interviews are available after the press conference.
Oklahoma Infertility Physicians and Patients to Explain Their Opposition to SB 1433 and HJR 1067 (Personhood Legislation)
WHEN: Friday February 24, 2012
WHERE: Oklahoma State Capitol Room 432B (Capitol Press Room) at 1:00pm
... SUBJECT: Medical professionals and patients opposing Personhood legislation (SB 1433 and HJR 1067)
WHO:
Atlee Breland (Mississippi): Founder of Parents against Personhood, infertility patient and mother of three; leader of Parents Against MS26, a grassroots organization integral to the defeat of Mississippi’s personhood ballot initiative in November 2011.
Dana Stone, MD (Oklahoma City): Obstetrician-gynecologist in private practice.
Eli Reshef, MD (Oklahoma City): Reproductive specialist, Medical Director, Bennett Fertility Institute.
Oklahoma Patients with Infertility.
“Personhood” legislation”, giving any biological entity from a fertilized egg on the status of a person, has been introduced this year in the Oklahoma legislation as SB 1433 (Crain, Billy) and HJR 1067 (Reynolds). The medical community and patients view such legislation as dangerous, carrying a broad range of destructive consequences to health care in Oklahoma, particularly devastating to infertility treatments.
Personhood legislation will criminalize the practice of complex infertility treatments, including the handling of embryos in the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process. Infertility affects 10-12% of all couples in Oklahoma. For many of them, IVF is the only procedure become parents. IVF, as practiced to the current standard of care, will leave physicians open to criminal prosecution if embryos are classified as legal “persons” Doctors providing IVF will consequently stop offering IVF treatments for fear of criminal prosecution and couples living with infertility in our state will be denied the opportunity to build their families.
The Oklahoma medical community, including the Oklahoma State Medical Association, as well as national organizations (including the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American College of Obstetrician-gynecologists, and RESOLVE :The National Infertility Association), strongly oppose Personhood legislation.
Interviews are available after the press conference.
I will be attending tomorrow. I hope to see any of my fellow Oklahomans there with me. Remember this is your uterus we are fighting for.
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