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“People should be able to take birth control access claims straight to federal court, ask judges to block unlawful restrictions quickly or permanently, recover legal fees when they win, and prevent states from using immunity defenses to avoid the case.”
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“Federal birth control protections should not by themselves require private health plans or government health programs to cover particular birth control methods or services.”
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“The U.S. Attorney General, affected patients, providers, organizations, and providers suing for staff or patients should be able to bring birth control access cases, and private people who enforce banned restrictions should be treated like officials.”
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“Courts should read federal birth control access protections broadly to carry out their purpose, and valid parts should keep working if a court strikes down another part.”
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“Health insurance plans and federal health programs should not have to cover new or different contraception benefits because of federal contraception access protections.”
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“State law and private agreements should decide disputes over stored eggs, sperm, embryos, or other reproductive material, including material connected to VA fertility care, instead of federal health agencies taking control of it.”
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“People should keep legal control over how their reproductive genetic materials, such as eggs or sperm, are used, stored, transferred, or disposed of during fertility care.”
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“The FDA should keep deciding which birth control drugs, devices, and related products can be approved, authorized, and regulated under federal safety laws.”
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“People should have a federal right to access fertility treatment such as IVF, and patients with a written treatment plan should be able to continue or finish that treatment.”
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“People should have a federal right to get and voluntarily use federally approved birth control, willing health care providers should be able to provide birth control care and referrals, and sterilization should be allowed only with the patient's informed consent.”
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“Covered fertility treatment disputes should be able to go directly to federal court or be moved there in some cases, and plaintiffs who win should recover reasonable legal fees and costs.”
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“Federal protections for IVF should use a definition based on collecting eggs, fertilizing them with sperm outside the body, and later placing them in a uterus.”
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“HHS should write rules explaining federal fertility rights within 180 days, and DOD, VA, and HHS should work together on research about veterans' fertility and reproductive health.”
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“States should have to keep IVF services legal, and stop cities or counties from banning IVF, to keep receiving federal Medicaid payments.”
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“Federal fertility treatment protections should override conflicting federal, state, and local rules, including RFRA-based government arguments, and future federal laws should follow those protections unless Congress clearly says otherwise.”
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“Federal fertility protections should override state limits that block protected fertility care, restrict clinics more than medical safety requires, or interfere with fertility coverage, drugs, or devices.”
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“People should have a federal right to receive standard fertility care, including IVF when medically appropriate, and fertility providers should have a federal right to provide that care when it follows accepted medical standards.”
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“The Justice Department and harmed patients, providers, insurers, or companies should be able to sue when protected fertility care is blocked, with a direct path to federal court and court orders against unlawful state limits.”
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“Federal birth control access protections should not be read to allow sterilization without consent.”
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“Governments should not enforce special limits that make contraception harder to sell, provide, get, or use unless they can strongly prove the limit helps access or patient health and no less restrictive option would work.”
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“Federal, state, and local governments should not be able to single out birth control for restrictions, carve birth control out of general laws in ways that make access harder, or enforce conflicting laws, and they should have to prove with strong evidence that any limit is necessary and that a less restrictive option would not work.”
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“Governments should not be able to ban or seriously interfere with protected fertility treatment, and state or local safety rules for fertility providers should remain only when they protect patients and no less restrictive option would work.”
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“The Department of Health and Human Services should have one year to write rules explaining how federal fertility treatment protections will be carried out.”
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“Doctors, clinics, hospitals, individuals, and other organizations should be allowed to choose not to provide IVF services.”
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“Fertility providers should be able to provide or help provide covered fertility treatment, and they should be able to share evidence-based information, counseling, referrals, and related support with patients.”
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“People and organizations should not be able to use RFRA or similar federal defenses to defeat federal contraception access protections unless Congress clearly creates that exception later.”
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“Fertility protections should cover more than IVF, including insemination, egg or sperm freezing, embryo testing, fertility medications, donated eggs or sperm, and future fertility services approved by HHS.”
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“States should still be able to create and enforce health and safety standards for IVF services, as long as those standards do not prohibit IVF.”
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“Sterilization should still require the patient's voluntary and informed consent, and contraception protections should not be read to allow forced or uninformed sterilization.”
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“Governments should not be able to punish someone for helping another person voluntarily get or use birth control.”
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