Washington, DC — U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pushing back against the Trump Administration’s termination of IVF programs at Georgia’s CDC.
Last week, Sen. Ossoff and a group of Senators demanded answers from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) team responsible for making sure families who are trying to have children through in vitro fertilization (IVF) can do so in an informed and safe manner – despite President Donald Trump’s promise to support families seeking IVF treatments.
The Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance and Research team (ARTS) at the CDC has served as a key source of information for patients seeking fertility treatment, collecting and maintaining data on IVF and assisted reproductive technology cycles performed in the United States.
“Because IVF is a complicated and expensive process, the American people deserve access to the best information possible to inform their family building journey. Unfortunately, hollowing out National Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Surveillance System capabilities and capacity is consistent with Donald Trump’s deceitful and disingenuous rhetoric on IVF,” Sen. Ossoff and the group wrote to HHS Secretary Kennedy. “Your actions threaten hopeful parents and families’ ability to access high-quality, safe, and effective fertility care.”
Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect Georgia families’ access to reproductive health care.
Last March, Sen. Ossoff lifted up concerns of Georgia families worried about access to IVF after the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Alabama Supreme Court’s subsequent extreme ruling.
Sen. Ossoff also co-sponsored the Access to Family Building Act to establish a legal right to IVF and the Right to Contraception Act, a bill establishing a right to access the pill, IUDs, and other contraception.
This year, Sen. Ossoff has released multiple reports from his ongoing investigation into the impacts of Georgia’s 6-week abortion ban. The reports have revealed that Georgia doctors are being forced to wait for women to develop life-threatening infections before terminating nonviable pregnancies and that over a dozen Georgia OBGYNs say they’ve personally observed cases where Georgia’s abortion ban led to injury or even the death of pregnant women – all due to the State of Georgia’s abortion ban.
Click here to read the Senators’ letter.
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