President Donald Trump On Tuesday, an executive thing aimed at reducing the costs of fertilization in the laboratory, a medical procedure that helps people face infertility to build their families.
The matter said: “The Americans need a reliable access to artificial insemination and reasonable treatment options, as the cost for each session can range from 12,000 dollars to $ 25,000.” “Providing support and awareness and access to fertility treatments at reasonable prices can help these families to move on their way to paternity, hope and trust.”
The matter issued instructions to the President’s Assistant to Local Policy to grant Trump’s list of policy recommendations on protecting the access of artificial insemination and “reducing the costs of the health and health plan strongly to the treatment of artificial insemination” within 90 days.
Industrial pollination became a point of discussion during the 2024 presidential campaign when Alabama agreed to protect fertilization service providers in the laboratory from legal responsibility two weeks after the state’s Supreme Court bites that frozen embryos can be considered children under the state law.
Trump said at the time he had supported his provision. An opinion poll from the Associated Press Nork Public Affairs Research Center found that about 6 out of 10 adults in the United States support the protection of access to artificial insemination, with 26 % neutral and about 1 out of 10 opposition.
In 2018, reproach technology with help, including artificial insemination, contributed to 2 % of all children born in the United States, according to a report By the United States Centers to control and prevent diseases.
Here is what to know about this increasingly common fertility treatment.
What is artificial insemination?
The procedure provides a possible solution when a woman faces a pregnancy problem, and is usually tried after other fertile fertility treatments fail.
It involves recovering the woman’s eggs and merging them into a laboratory dish with a man’s sperm to create a fertilized fetus, then it is transferred to her uterus in an attempt to create pregnancy.
Artificial insemination takes place in cycles and may take more than one. The procedure can use couple eggs, sperm or from a donor.
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Does insurance cover the procedure?
The insurance coverage of industrial vaccination and other fertility treatments can be incomplete and depend on those who provide insurance for the patient.
More adult employees offer coverage to attract and preserve workers. Many companies also work to expand the coverage range beyond those with infertility diagnosis, which makes it accessible to LGBTQ+ and single women.
Government -funded programs such as Medicaid significantly limit fertility treatment. Coverage is less common among smaller employers.
Critics said that the lack of widespread coverage creates a gap, which mainly reduces treatments for people who can pay thousands of dollars from his pocket.
What is the history of artificial insemination?
The first child, who was visited by artificial insemination in 1978, was born in England. But the first in the United States was in 1981 in Norfolk, Virginia, with the birth of Elizabeth Car.
Her mother, Judith Car, had three abnormal pregnancy, forced the removal of the fallopian tubes. She and her husband sought to treat Huard and Georgana Jones, doctors who opened a fertility clinic at the Faculty of Medicine in East Virginia.
Norfolk clinic faced resistance before opening it. When I sought to obtain the required state certificate in 1979, more than 600 people were burning in a general hearing. Many women have expressed support for artificial insemination and their witness to the desire to start a family, while abortion control groups raised concerns about doctors who interfere with the human pregnancy and the disposable fetuses.
Despite the proposed state legislation to stop the clinic, it was opened in 1980, with others after that shortly after California, Tennessee and Texas. By 1988, at least 169 centers in the laboratory were working in 41 states.
Margaret Marsh, a history professor at the University of Rutgers in New Jersey, said that the use of artificial insemination continued to grow, but the feelings against her have never been afraid of the American abortion movement.
Marsh said that many abortion opponents have achieved unstable peace with technology as an infertility treatment. But the opposition of artificial insemination has gained momentum since Roe V turns. Wade in 2022.
She said: “Not everyone in the Movement of Movement opposes these reproductive techniques, but many do that.”
How is the embryos made?
Treatment is often used hormones to ovulate ovulation so that multiple eggs are produced and a needle is used to remove from the ovaries.
Eggs can be fertilized by adding sperm to the eggs in the laboratory, or one sperm can be injected into each egg.
Dr. Jason Griffiths, a reproductive endocrinologist at Houston, said that the fertilized egg is educated over a period of about five to six days to create the ancient cyst – the early stage of the fetus – or it is transferred or stored for use in the future.
Griffiths said that on the third day after fertilization, the fetus ranges from six to 10 cells. By the sixth day, it ranges between 100 and 300 cells. He said the person contains more than 1 trillion cell.
How is embryos frozen and stored?
Frozen embryos for future pregnancy can be used, and the vast majority survives the melting process.
The freezing process includes replacement of water in the cells of the fetus with a protective fluid and freezing flash with liquid nitrogen, according to Jones Hopkins medicine.
Frozen embryos are stored in tanks that contain liquid nitrogen in hospital laboratories or reproductive medicine centers. Griffiths said that it can also be kept in the storage facilities with which health care facilities contract with, especially when they are stored for many years. Frozen fetuses can be safely preserved for a contract or more.
Griffiths said that the conditions are monitored by these facilities and there are material security mechanisms to protect tanks and backup generators in the event of power outages.
–Ongar mentioned from Luisville, Kentucky. The Associated Press Tom Murphy’s book in Indianapolis and Ben Vinley in Norfolk, Virginia, contributed to the reports.
