House Bill 1182

Background: House Bill 1182 is an act to establish a data collection system pertaining to assisted reproductive technology.

Our Stance: The ACLU of South Dakota opposes House Bill 1182.

This bill seeks to create a statewide database to track embryos used in IVF and the pregnancies that result from those treatments and make that information publicly available. Many different considerations go into making decisions about one’s health, one’s body, one’s family, one’s future. And when people are making these very personal, often very difficult decisions, no one needs or wants the government in the room interfering with that process.