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Updates: Fertility Coverage For Same-Sex Couples, Damage Awards Against Counties

Senators tried last-ditch efforts to change two hotly debated bills — a bill granting fertility treatment insurance coverage to same-sex couples and another that would give bigger civil awards to people harmed by local government employees — as the legislative session nears its close on Monday. Sen. Bryan Simonaire, R-Anne Arundel, tried to make a change on Friday to HB 838, “Coverage for Infertility Services,”

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Updates: Fertility Coverage For Same-Sex Couples, Damage Awards Against Counties

Senators tried last-ditch efforts to change two hotly debated bills — a bill granting fertility treatment insurance coverage to same-sex couples and another that would give bigger civil awards to people harmed by local government employees — as the legislative session nears its close on Monday. Sen. Bryan Simonaire, R-Anne Arundel, tried to make a change on Friday to HB 838, “Coverage for Infertility Services,”

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Bill Would Require Fertility Benefits For Lesbians

A bill that would grant married lesbian couples the same fertility treatment benefits as husbands and wives is advancing in the Maryland General Assembly. The measure passed unanimously in a House subcommittee Tuesday, and full Senate and House committees are likely to vote this week.

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Her doctor is Dr. Robert Casper, the reproductive endocrinologist who runs the Toronto Center for Advanced Reproductive Technology. He has started to offer women a fertility treatment that’s not available in the United States, at least not yet. The technique was named Augment by the company that developed it, and its aim is to help women who have been unable to get pregnant because their eggs aren’t as fresh as they once were.

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U.K. Parliament Approves Controversial Three-Parent Mitochondrial Gene Therapy

The United Kingdom’s House of Commons voted overwhelmingly today to allow British researchers to pursue a new fertility treatment that could prevent certain kinds of genetic diseases. The technique, called mitochondrial DNA replacement therapy, could allow women who carry disease-causing mutations in their mitochondrial genes to give birth to genetically related children free of mitochondrial disease.

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Safety First: MPs Are In a Quandary Over a Vote on a New IVF Technique

It has been a long-standing rule in fertility treatment that no
scientist should attempt to modify the genes of a human embryo if that
modification can be passed on to subsequent generations through the
“germline” – the eggs and sperm of the future person. Now Parliament is
about to consider another form of germline modification, so-called
“three-parent embryos”, this time involving the genes of the
mitochondria, described as the tiny “power packs” of the cell, which
exist outside the nucleus.