A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “The Michigan penal code,” (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 219g.
The fairly recent use of home DNA test kits to explore one’s ancestry and locate long-lost relations has facilitated a troubling discovery—the practice by some fertility doctors to use their own sperm in assisted reproduction procedures with their patients and the failure of some donors to disclose relevant or truthful information. The bills would amend different acts to address fraud in reproductive assistance procedures. House Bill 4178 would prohibit providing false or misleading information related to an assisted reproduction procedure and prohibit a health professional from using an embryo, sperm, or egg in such a procedure that is not the one the patient consented to. House Bills 4179, 4180, 4181, and 4182 would make related changes concerning, respectively, sentencing guidelines, health professional sanctions, civil liability, and statutes of limitations.
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary
Reported without amendment
