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On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling in Trump v. Casa staying the injunctions previously blocking President Trump’s Executive Order concerning birthright citizenship as applied beyond the...more
A federal judge in Texas has vacated almost all of the 2024 HIPAA Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy that created special protections for reproductive health care information, finding that the U.S. Department of...more
In the wake of a recent federal District Court decision, the reproductive health care HIPAA Privacy rules finalized during the Biden Administration have been vacated and plan sponsors should re-evaluate the language included...more
A federal district court has vacated a federal regulation under HIPAA that provided special restrictions on the disclosure of reproductive health information....more
Recorded at SCbio’s 2025 annual conference, hosts Heather and Lauren are joined by Lindsey Calcutt, an award-winning entrepreneur and the CEO and Co-Founder of Incora Health. Lindsey shares how the gap in women’s health...more
This order makes it the policy of the Administration to ensure reliable access to IVF treatment, including by easing unnecessary statutory or regulatory burdens to make IVF treatment more affordable. Within 90 days of the...more
The new Massachusetts Parentage Act goes into effect in less than a month, on January 1, 2025. While much of the conversation has appropriately been around the changes it brings to laws for LGBTQ+ families, the bill also...more
The New York State Department of Labor (NYDOL) has issued informal guidance regarding the Paid Prenatal Leave benefit that will be available to New York employees beginning January 1, 2025. The guidance includes general...more
On November 7, 2024, Michigan lawmakers in the Senate introduced the Reproductive Data Privacy Act (“RDPA”), also known as Senate Bill 1082 (SB 1082). The bill aims to strengthen privacy protections for sensitive...more
As the holidays approach, family is at the forefront in many people’s minds. Families come in every variety of size, color, age, gender and chaos. Some families look like the Cleavers or the Cosbys. Others look more like the...more
Beginning November 21, 2024, the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law will expand to include reproductive loss events experienced by an employee or their spouse as a qualifying reason for time off under the Commonwealth’s sick...more
Effective November 21, 2024, Massachusetts employees may take earned sick time to “address the employee’s own physical and mental health needs, and those of their spouse, if the employee or the employee’s spouse experiences...more
Question: We have an employee who is undergoing fertility treatments out of town and misses days sporadically. Do these absences fall under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?...more
Family building benefits continue to be top of mind as employers and plan sponsors implement new benefit programs to support family building journeys for their employees. At the same time, there have been a few recent...more
On July 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion 24-05, evaluating two manufacturer-sponsored assistance programs under the federal Anti-Kickback...more
Under current US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance, sexually active gay and bisexual men are prohibited from anonymously donating sperm. The FDA is expected to reverse this longstanding practice and adopt a system...more
On 16 February 2024, the Supreme Court of Alabama published its opinion, “Supreme Court of Alabama, SC-2022-0515,” regarding whether embryos located outside the biological uterus are considered unborn children pursuant to...more
Recent legal developments in Alabama demonstrate that fertility care stakeholders should prepare for additional state regulation of in vitro fertilization (“IVF”) and other assisted reproductive technology (“ART”) services in...more
I. Alabama Legislation Following LePage - On March 7th, the Alabama Legislature passed SB159 (“SB159” or the “bill”), as a means of granting certain protections to IVF clinics and providers in the wake of the LePage v....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that cryogenically frozen embryos are children and are protected from destruction under state law. This is the latest in a series of post-Dobbs judicial rulings...more
The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos, or “extrauterine children,” should be afforded the same legal protections as living children under a state wrongful death law....more
On February 16, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court issued an opinion in the consolidated cases LePage et al., v. The Center for Reproductive Medicine et al. and Burdick-Aysenne et al., v. The Center for Reproductive Medicine et...more
On February 16, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a significant and controversial ruling that gave personhood status to unimplanted human embryos—a decision with considerable implications for in vitro fertilization...more
The decision was issued by the Alabama Supreme Court on February 16, 2024. The implications can be said to be national in scope as individual states step forward with their own interpretations of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...more
Bereavement leave policies generally aim to provide employees with paid leave following the death of a family member. These policies, however, often fail to acknowledge the grief that employees experience upon a fertility...more