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Introduced May 23, 2025 by Diana Harshbarger · Last progress May 23, 2025
The bill expands federal support for restorative reproductive medicine, data collection, and fertility-awareness education—potentially improving infertility diagnosis and research—but it shifts funding, attention, and program priorities in ways that may reduce access to established family-planning services, raise costs and administrative burdens, introduce privacy and legal-access risks, and favor contested treatment approaches over widely accepted options.
Low-income and uninsured people seeking infertility care (especially women) would have more places and programs eligible for federal support and Title X funding for restorative reproductive services, increasing subsidized access to diagnostics, counseling, and some treatments.
Researchers, clinicians, and patients nationwide will get more coordinated federal research, regular data and public reporting on infertility (including male factors and environmental drivers), improving long-term knowledge, public-health planning, and the evidence base for future treatments.
People of reproductive age (including men) and clinicians would gain expanded education and training on fertility-awareness, body literacy, and male-factor infertility, improving informed decision-making and prevention opportunities.
Women and low-income people could face reduced access to contraception, abortion-related services, and other established family-planning care because Title X funds and teen-prevention grants may be shifted toward fertility-awareness and restorative-reproductive providers and programs.
The bill privileges and promotes specific approaches (e.g., NaProTechnology and fertility-awareness methods) that are contested or have limited high-quality evidence, risking lower-quality care, unmet expectations, and diversion of clinical attention away from well-established reproductive-health options.
Health care providers and religiously affiliated hospitals can refuse participation in or referral for ART on conscience grounds, which may reduce patient access to ART, create legal uncertainty, and allow federally funded institutions to withhold services without federal penalty.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Directs HHS to expand training, research, coding, reporting, and Title X/Teen Pregnancy program eligibility to prioritize restorative reproductive medicine, fertility‑awareness methods, and male‑factor infertility education.
Requires HHS to expand training, research, data collection, coding, and program eligibility to support restorative reproductive medicine, fertility awareness–based methods, and male‑factor infertility education. It conditions certain Title X grants on providing that training, updates medical codes and payment models for infertility and restorative reproductive services, directs multiple regular reports and surveys, broadens grant eligibility for providers focused on restorative care, and includes conscience protections for providers who refuse to participate in assisted reproductive technology (ART).