2025 Advocacy Activities
Below are the letters and amicus briefs that ASRM has written or signed to protect reproductive rights and the practice of reproductive medicine.
(Updated 4-18-2025)
DATE
ACTION/DESCRIPTION
4/17/2025
Sign on letter with PPFA recommending a total of $1.74 billion for international family planning and reproductive health programs ($1.62 billion from the Global Health Programs account and $116 million from the International Organizations and Programs account for a voluntary contribution to UNFPA). The letter also urges policy changes to protect and advance global sexual and reproductive health and rights.
4/11/2025
Sign on letter with NAF opposing TX's House Bill 44 and Senate Bill 31, abortion bans that include criminal penalties for providers
4/9/2025
Memorandum of support for NY's SB 3155, removing age-based discrimination in NY's IVF coverage
4/8/2025
Endorsement with AllPaths of VT's H 302, a bill that would include fertility preservation in Medicaid
4/7/2025
Letter to Montana's Senate opposing HB 316, which would allow a personhood constitutional amendment
4/7/2025
Friends of NICHD FY26 Sign On Letter
4/7/2025
Letter to FL's Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice opposing CS/SB 1284, a fetal personhood bill
4/4/2025
CDC Coalition FY 2026 letter with APHA to House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations subcommittee leaders urging them to provide at least $11.581 billion for CDC in FY 2026
4/4/2025
Sign on letters with Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research recommending at least $51.3 billion for the NIH base budget in FY 2026
3/25/2025
Sign on letter with PPFA in Support of UNFPA Funding Act Organizational Endorsement
3/24/2025
Letter to GA's House Judiciary Non Civil Committee opposing HB 441, a personhood bill
3/19/2025
Letter to AR's House Committee on Public Health, Labor and Welfare opposing HB 1795, a bill regulating ART information
3/18/2025
CDC Coalition with APHA FY 2026 letter to House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations subcommittee leaders urging them to provide at least $11.581 billion for CDC in FY 2026
3/18/2025
Sign on letter with the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research recommending that Congress provides “at least $51.303 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for fiscal year (FY) 2026, in addition to support for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, which would represent a $4.222 billion or 9.0% increase over the final FY 2025 funding level.”
3/18/2025
Letter to GA's Senate Committee on Labor and Insurance in support of HB 94, a fertility preservation bill
3/12/2025
Letter to KS's State Senate opposing HB 2062, a bill that would mandate child support beginning at conception
3/12/2025
Sign on with ACOG and SMFM to Carmen Purl, M.D., et al. v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, et al., No. 2:24-cv-228-Z
3/4/2025
Letter to CT's Human Services Committee in support of HB 7022, expanding fertility preservation coverage to HUSKY
2/28/2025
Letter to CO's Health and Human Services committee in support of HB25-1259, a donor conception and IVF protection bill
2/26/2025
Letter to AR's House Committee on Public Health, Labor and Welfare opposing HB 1554, a bill regulating ART information
2/26/2025
Letter to SC's House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee opposing HB 3457, a total abortion ban with criminal penalties
2/26/2025
Sign on letter with PPFA to Congress urging them to restore foreign aid and preserve investments in international family planning.
2/21/2025
Endorsement of the Access to Reproductive Care for Servicemembers Act with Mikie Sherrill
2/21/2025
Endorsement of the Supporting Health Moms and Babies Act with Tim Kaine
2/19/2025
Community letter with the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research to appropriations leaders requesting 1) a funding boost for NIH; and 2) legislative language preventing the administration from moving forward with changes to Facilities and Administrative (F&A) cost reimbursement (15% F&A cost cap).
2/18/2025
Letter to Tennesee's House Population Health Subcommittee opposing HB 0026, a personhood bill
2/13/2025
Letter to Montana's House of Representatives opposing HB 316, which would allow a personhood constitutional amendment
2/11/2025
Letter to Senate HELP Committee supporting the nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer to serve as Secretary of Labor.
2/05/2025
Letter to ND's House Committee on Human Services opposing HB 1373, a personhood bill
2/05/2025
Sign on letter with COPAFS/Friends of NCHS calling out the removal of public data from federal websites
2/05/2025
Sign on letter with PPFA endorsing the EACH Act, permanently removing the Hyde Amendment
2/05/2025
1/27/2025
Letter to IA's House Judiciary Subcommittee opposing HF 106, a personhood bill
1/22/2025
Sign on letter with the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health calling out the implications of President Trump's executive orders on health as related to climate. Learn more at the MSCCH website.
1/22/2025
Sign on letter with PPFA endorsing the Endorse the Global HER Act to end the Global Gag Rule
1/21/2025
Letter to WA's House Health Care and Wellness Committee in support of HB 1129, an IVF coverage mandate
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