Stories Related to Bill Would Make Fraud In Fertility Treatments A Crime

By Rod Boshart, Gazette Des Moines BureauDES MOINES — Iowans who are victims of assisted reproductive fraud would be able to seek legal damages and perpetrators would face criminal charges under legislation adopted by Senate subcommittee members who heard “mind-blowing” testimony Tuesday.Senate Study Bill 1223 seeks to create a “fraud in assisted reproduction act” to address circumstances where Iowans seeking help in getting pregnant instead were the victims of unethical health care providers who took advantage of their vulnerable situations.Mark Hansen told members of a Senate Human Resources subcommittee Tuesday he got “world-changing” news when DNA test results revealed his mother’s doctor was his biological father.“Needless to say, the news was shocking and the world as I knew it — at least my portion of it — was no longer true.

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