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Chavez-DeRemer leads bill to make IVF more affordable as issue hovers over 2024 election

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) is leading the latest House bill on in vitro fertilization procedures as abortion and women’s reproductive healthcare take center stage in the 2024 election.

Chavez-DeRemer, along with Reps. Zach Nunn (R-IA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), and Susan Wild (D-PA), introduced the Helping to Optimize Patients’ Experience, or HOPE with Fertility Services Act, on Wednesday. The bill would expand access to IVF by requiring private health insurance plans to cover infertility treatments, which would alleviate an “enormous financial burden for women,” according to the members.

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