This plan says human life should be legally protected from the moment an egg is fertilized — not when a baby is born, not when it can survive outside the womb, but at the very first moment of conception. That one idea changes everything: it affects IVF, some forms of birth control, embryo research, surrogacy, and abortion. On top of that, the plan would redirect government health clinics away from birth control and toward "natural" fertility methods, and would eliminate gender identity from the law entirely.
The plan says life begins at the moment sperm meets egg. If that becomes law, then a fertilized egg has the same legal rights as a born person. That means:
During IVF, doctors usually create several embryos and pick the healthiest ones. The rest are frozen or discarded. Under this plan, throwing away an embryo could be treated as harming a legal person. Some forms of birth control that might prevent a fertilized egg from implanting (like IUDs) could also be challenged in court.
The plan says IVF has led to "the creation, freezing, and then destruction of millions of 'unwanted' human embryos." It wants the government to push people toward a different approach called Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM) — which uses natural methods to try to fix the underlying cause of infertility instead. The government would change how insurance pays for fertility treatment to favor RRM over IVF.
If you can't have a baby and RRM doesn't work for your condition — like severe blocked tubes or very low sperm count — you might not have another option. About 80,000 babies are born through IVF each year in the U.S. That number would drop significantly.
The plan calls surrogacy a way of treating children and women like products to be bought and sold. It supports a worldwide ban on commercial surrogacy. It also rejects the idea of artificial wombs, calling them "dystopian."
Surrogacy is the main way gay male couples can have biological children. It's also used by women who can't safely carry a pregnancy. A ban would eliminate this path to parenthood entirely.
The plan doesn't say "ban birth control." But it blames the birth control pill for causing the decline of the American family. And it would redirect government health clinic funding away from birth control and toward "fertility awareness" — basically, tracking your cycle to know when you're fertile.
Also: if fertilized eggs are legal persons, then IUDs and Plan B (which may prevent a fertilized egg from implanting) could face legal challenges.
If you get your birth control through a government-funded clinic (3.6 million women do each year), your clinic might have to switch from offering pills and IUDs to offering cycle-tracking classes instead. You'd need to find — and pay for — your birth control somewhere else.
The plan treats the number of abortions as a way to measure whether the government's family policies are working. If abortions go down, the policy is succeeding. Combined with the "life from fertilization" rule, this creates a framework designed to make abortion nearly impossible.
The plan would remove "gender identity" from the law entirely. It calls it a "made-up" concept. Without gender identity in the law, there's no legal basis for insurance to cover hormone therapy or transition-related care. Doctors could refuse to treat transgender patients without legal consequences.
Title X is a federal program that funds 3,900+ health clinics across the country, mostly serving low-income women. The plan would change the law so these clinics shift from providing birth control to teaching "fertility awareness" and natural fertility treatment. Government research money (NIH) would also be redirected from studying IVF to studying "root causes" of infertility.
The clinic where you get affordable birth control, STI testing, and reproductive health checkups might be forced to change its mission — or lose its government funding. The $286 million that runs these clinics would go to a very different kind of program.
Surrogacy banned, IVF restricted, excluded from marriage benefits, gender identity removed
IVF restricted, insurance pushed toward RRM, 30% with unexplained infertility may have no option
Health clinics lose birth control funding, harder to access affordable contraception
Gender identity erased from law, healthcare framework collapses, parental rights at risk
More research funding for their conditions (good) — but only focused on fertility, not pain relief
IVF clinics face restrictions, health clinics forced to change services, providers can refuse care