A bill aimed at enshrining the right to in-vitro fertilization into state law passed its first hurdle Monday, passing a House committee with a unanimous vote.
“I feel great. That went very well,” said the bill’s sponsor, Statesboro Republican state Rep. Lehman Franklin after the vote. “I expected it to go well because this issue, from the feedback that I’ve gotten, is a bipartisan issue. Everybody seems to love it.”
In-vitro fertilization, or IVF, is a fertility treatment in which eggs are removed from a woman’s ovary, fertilized in a laboratory and then implanted into a uterus and allowed to develop, or frozen for potential later use.
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