A Republican lawmaker in Kentucky says a bill shielding doctors and other health providers from criminal liability is broad enough to apply to in vitro fertilization services. State Sen. Whitney Westerfield made the comments Friday as the bill won final passage. The measure now goes to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.
FILE - Republican Kentucky Sen. Whitney Westerfield testifies during a State and Local Government Committee meeting at the state Capitol, Feb. 19, 2020, in Frankfort, Ky. On Friday, March 22, 2024, the Republican lawmaker said that a bill shielding doctors and other health providers from criminal liability is broad enough to apply to in vitro fertilization services. FRANKFORT, Ky.
“It was important to me to make that clear that providers can do what they do every day, and what moms and dads are counting on them to do every day to provide their services without fear of being prosecuted unduly,” Westerfield said in the interview afterward. “And I feel confident the bill is going to do that.”that in wrongful death lawsuits in that state, embryos outside the uterus had the same legal protections as children.
During the House debate, supporters said their motivation was to protect frontline health workers from prosecution for inadvertent mistakes. After the Alabama court ruling, Westerfield filed a bill to limit liability for health care providers if there is a loss or damage to a human embryo. That bill and a separate one to protect IVF providers from criminal liability when providing fertility services have stalled in committees.
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