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Recien Nacido Prematuro , Resultado del Embarazo , Humanos , Embarazo , Femenino , Recién Nacido , Principios Morales , FertilidadRESUMEN
RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association was founded in 1974 to provide support and information for women and men living with infertility. RESOLVE has worked to increase access to care beginning with insurance coverage for infertility and more recently in fighting anti-family legislation in many state legislatures. Beginning with the Personhood ballot initiative in Colorado in 2008, RESOLVE and its grassroots advocates have been called into action to fight legislative attempts to restrict access to all family-building options, specifically in vitro fertilization. Personhood bills and ballot initiatives would severely restrict access to infertility medical treatments and prevent physicians from practicing medicine to the standard of care patients deserve. Personhood defines a fertilized egg as a person and grants full rights of "personhood" to a microscopic embryo. In addition to a growth in Personhood bills and ballot initiatives since 2008, RESOLVE has also had to fight other anti-family bills that would impose state government oversight and burdensome regulations on the practice of medicine for people with infertility. The most successful medical treatments available for people with infertility are under attack.
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Política de Planificación Familiar , Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/economía , Cobertura del Seguro/ética , Seguro de Salud/ética , Técnicas Reproductivas Asistidas/legislación & jurisprudencia , Discriminación Social/prevención & control , Agencias Voluntarias de Salud , Femenino , Fertilización In Vitro/economía , Fertilización In Vitro/legislación & jurisprudencia , Regulación Gubernamental , Costos de la Atención en Salud , Humanos , Infertilidad Femenina/economía , Infertilidad Femenina/terapia , Infertilidad Masculina/economía , Infertilidad Masculina/terapia , Legislación Médica/tendencias , Masculino , Medios de Comunicación de Masas , Personeidad , Calidad de la Atención de Salud , Técnicas Reproductivas Asistidas/economía , Discriminación Social/tendencias , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
'Personhood' initiatives filed in many states within the United States threaten to impose potentially significant restrictions on infertility treatment, embryo disposition, pre-natal care, abortion, contraception, and stem-cell research, all through attempts to redefine a 'person' or 'human being' as existing from the moment of fertilization or conception, and endowed with the full legal and Constitutional rights of personhood. Virginia's recent, unsuccessful attempt to pass such legislation provides both a dramatic example of these efforts and valuable lessons in the fight against them by infertility advocates and others. Arguments over loss of infertility treatment seemed more persuasive to legislatures than did restrictions on abortion or stem cell research. Indeed, persuading legislators or voters that they could be 'pro-life' and still anti-personhood initiatives was a key strategy, and consumer efforts and media attention were instrumental. The most central lessons, however, may be the degree of intensity and coordinated strategy to shift public perception that lie behind these numerous state efforts, regardless of whether the actual initiatives are won or lost.