{"id":326498,"date":"2025-02-17T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=326498"},"modified":"2025-02-16T21:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T03:13:45","slug":"georgia-ivf-bill-loved-ones-used-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-ivf-bill-loved-ones-used-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia state reps push pro-IVF bill because they and their loved ones have used it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Bill 428<\/span><\/a>, a piece of Republican-led Georgia legislation, would create a right to undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the state. The impetus behind the bill was several lawmakers\u2019 <\/span>personal appeals<\/span><\/a> of using the process to grow their own families.<\/span><\/p>\n

The legislation\u2019s prime sponsor, Republican state Rep. Lehman Franklin, explained that he chose to introduce HB 428 \u2013 despite national controversy regarding the ethics of the technology \u2013 because he and his wife used it to conceive their own child.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have a real personal connection with this bill and with what we\u2019re trying to do here,\u201d Franklin stated. \u201cWe wanted to do IVF one last time, and we did it and it worked, and I\u2019m ecstatic to say that now, she\u2019s pregnant with a little girl that\u2019s supposed to be born June 4. And so, we\u2019re super excited about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Notably, Franklin acknowledged he and his wife attempted three prior rounds of IVF before being able to implant an embryo successfully. The death of multiple embryos in the course of undergoing IVF is generally considered a <\/span>standard fact<\/span><\/a> of the procedure, whether the embryos die in the process, or are frozen and later destroyed; one study showed that nine embryos is considered the optimal number to create in order to result in a live birth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n