Arizona legislation

Resolve did a great job discussing the new laws in Arizona that have since been passed into law. Below is an excerpt of their findings:

"SB 1306 (the egg bill)

The good news: SB 1306 no longer bans compensation for egg donors (which would have effectively ended egg donation treatment in Arizona).

Arizona passed Senate Bill 1306 which adds additional informed consent requirements for doctors who deal with egg donors. The Bill states in part:

Before performing any medical procedure or prescribing any hormones or other drugs for an egg provider, a physician must provide the egg provider with the following information:

1. A description of all hormones and other drugs to be taken by the egg provider, including the dosage, frequency of administration, intended biochemical function and likely physiological response to each medication.

Marna Gatlin of PVED and the AFA teamed up for a great blog regarding some up and coming Arizona legislation that I blogged about last week.

Read, and let me know your thoughts!

http://theafa.typepad.com/theafablog/2010/02/hey-arizona-please-dont-con...

"by Marna Gatlin

Egg Donation - The legislative agenda of Arizona's state lawmakers is now being made public. In fact, Representative David Stevens, a Sierra State Republican from District 25, is a primary sponsor of the following bills:

He is a primary sponsor of measures that would require physicians to give specific informed-consent information to prospective egg donors; bar the selling of human eggs; and another that bars in vitro fertilization of a human egg with anything but human sperm or the transfer of a human embryo to anything but a human womb.