SB1334 requires all health benefit plans to provide coverage for “standard fertility preservation services” for individuals diagnosed with cancer and who are within reproductive age, when a medically necessary treatment may directly or indirectly cause infertility.
The Senate passed SB1334 on May 22, 2024, by a vote of 29 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the nays because “standard fertility preservation services” involve “ocyte and sperm preservation procedures, including ovarian tissue, sperm, and oocyte 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 every year. Given that the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government, IVF must not be viewed as the solution to infertility. Oklahoma ought to forbid 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.