A Georgia state bill that would have imposed severe limits on IVF,
promoted as a measure to prevent future "Octomom" situations, is
unlikely to be passed this year, according to observers. The proposed
legislation, which has been sent to a senate subcommittee for further
study, would have required doctors and fertility clinics to fertilize
no more embryos than they planned to transfer into a woman, and would
have limited the number to no more than two or three, depending upon
the woman's age. Proponents have suggested that this kind of
legislation is sorely needed to protect both women and taxpayers from
situations like Nadya Suleman's, in which the transfer of a large
number of embryos resulted in a case of super-multiples with no visible
means of support.
But the bill was never really about that.
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