HB677 provides State Group Insurance Program coverage for “standard fertility preservation services.”
The Senate passed HB677 on April 24, 2025, by a vote of 32 to 4. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because “standard fertility preservation services” involve “ocyte and sperm retrieval and preservation procedures and storage, including ovarian tissue, sperm, and oocyte retrieval and cryopreservation.” They are simply the first steps of the exact same process used during the life-destroying practices of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies, through which the vast majority of embryos conceived outside the womb are aborted or indefinitely frozen, resulting in the killing or cryo-incarceration of millions of preborn children. Since the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government, IVF must not be viewed as the solution to infertility. Florida ought to abolish abortion and cryo-orphaning entirely, upholding the sanctity of life for every person. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
