As Congress considers legislation on in vitro fertilization, five U.S. senators are asking the Department of Health and Human Services to assess fertility clinic safety standards in an effort to ensure the clinics are adequately protecting the human embryos in their possession.
Republican Sens. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, and Roger Marshall of Kansas wrote a letter to Christi Grimm, the inspector general of HHS. In it, they requested a detailed investigation of the cause of the accidental destruction of embryos at the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Mobile, Alabama, along with other such mishaps at U.S. fertility clinics.
>>>Read the letter here.
The senators are also demanding details about the federal government’s process of collecting and publishing fertility clinic data so women…
