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, Republicans sent a letter on Thursday to the Department of Health and Human Services asking that it audit the safety standards of IVF and other assisted reproductive technology, or ART, clinics across the country.from Alabama in which a hospital patient wandered into the facility’s cryogenic nursery through an unsecured doorway and destroyed five embryos intended for IVF.
“Women expect transparency with access to accurate pregnancy success rates and the certification status of the fertility clinics they are considering,” Cassidy and the other senators wrote. “It is unclear, however, whether CDC is implementing the law in such a manner as to maximally benefit the mothers it purportedly seeks to empower.”
The letter also outlines several instances of mislabeling, mixing up, or other improper handling of embryos in clinics across the country.
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