WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) testified in front of the House Rules Committee in support of his amendment, Amendment 63, to the Fiscal Year 2025 Military, Construction, Veterans Affairs, And Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
Amendment 63 would prohibit appropriated government funds from going towards assisted reproductive technology that place a fertilized egg, a blastocyst, or an embryo in non-human alternative gestation environment such as an artificial womb or another form of complete ectogenesis. The amendment also prohibits funding for any infertility treatments or technologies that use preimplantation genetic testing, or any form of genetic diagnosis, to select an embryo based on its health, sex, physical, features, potential IQ, or genetic profile.
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“Americans are delaying marriage and having children later, which leads to infertility.” said Rep. Rosendale. “We also have a chronic disease crisis that makes having children more difficult. It would make more sense to get to the root problem of our infertility crisis as opposed to pretending that IVF is a magic bullet without any downsides.”
