HB428 codifies a right for individuals to obtain in vitro fertilization.

The House passed HB428 on March 28, 2025, by a vote of 160 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies involve life-destroying practices 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. Yet, no person has a right to take the “life or limb” of a preborn child. As the care of human life — not its destruction — is the greatest responsibility of government, lawmakers in Georgia ought to forbid all methods of 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 guaranteed by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.