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New Bill Gives Veterans Access to In Vitro Fertilization

Stars and Stripes, June 24, 2012

A bill introduced last week into Congress by Sen. Patty Murray would give veterans and their spouses access to in vitro fertilization services through the Department of Veterans Affairs for the first time. In vitro fertilization is excluded from fertility services offered through the VA, but with a number of veterans facing injuries that can affect their ability to conceive, Murray, D-Wash., said in a statement for the Congressional Record that this service is part and parcel of caring for veterans when they come home.

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Seattle, WA

In general, the West Coast has fewer fertility clinic options than the East Coast; however, the Seattle area is definitely an exception.

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Dr. Arthur Wisot of Reproductive Partners Medical Group explains when a woman should seek a consultation with a fertility doctor, or reproductive endocrinologist.

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Dr. Arthur Wisot of Reproductive Partners Medical Group discusses treatments for abnormal sperm count including vitamin supplements, intrauterine insemination (IUI), and in vitro fertilization (IVF) with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

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Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) allows fertility doctors to examine chromosomes prior to embryo transfer, explains Dr. Arthur Wisot of Reproductive Partners Medical Group in California.

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Occupy Seattle Protester's Miscarriage Claim Questioned

Seattle Times, Nov 22, 2011

A Seattle teenager's claim that abuse by Seattle police caused her to miscarry has become a viral Internet sensation of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but no evidence has emerged to support her allegation. Jennifer M. Fox, 19, has accused police of kicking her and hitting her in the stomach with a bicycle during a Nov. 15 Occupy Seattle protest, even after she yelled: "I'm pregnant," then dousing her with pepper spray. A viral video shows her reeling from the pepper spray, but not being struck.

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Occupy Seattle Protester Blames Pepper Spray, Beating, for Her Miscarriage

Washington Post, Nov 22, 2011

Jennifer Fox, an Occupy Seattle protester, told the Seattle Stranger, an alternative news weekly, that she suffered a miscarriage she thinks is due to police pepper-spraying and beating her during a Nov. 15 protest. Images from the protest went viral after photographer Joshua Trujillo captured the injured Fox and 84-year-old Dorli Rainey after they had been hit with pepper spray. Police said they had asked the protesters to move from an intersection, but the protesters did not.

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Hey, Anyone Seen a Sperm Bike?

(Or a chip to measure sperm)

With sperm bikes and fertility chips, sperm is high profile in the news this week.

Sperm on Board

First, Seattle residents may be surprised to see a 110-pound "sperm" cycling around town. The city has debuted a high profile "sperm bike," to make deliveries from a sperm bank to fertility clinics.

The sperm bike first appeared in the bike-friendly city of Copenhagen, Denmark, home of The European Sperm Bank. the sperm bank used the custom-designed bike with a cooling system built inside the "sperm head" to deliver sperm to fertility clinics in an environmentally friendly way. one of the largest in Europe. The European Sperm Bank's Seattle lab worked with Portland's Splendid Cycles and Antimatter.com to build the sperm structure, which is constructed of Jesmonite on top of a Bullitt cargo bike. The bike is 9 1/2 feet long with the tail and weighs about 110 pounds fully loaded. The Seattle version also includes a small electrical motor to give riders a boost on Seattle's many hills.

Gary Olsen of Seattle Sperm Bank told the Seattle Post Intelligencer: "It's getting a lot of looks. People are stopping. They don't quite understand what's going on. You put a giant sperm on a bike, and you're going to get some attention."

Seattle, WA, Fertility Guide

Though in general the West Coast of the US has fewer fertility clinic options than the East Coast, the Seattle area is an exception. According to the latest Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) report, there are seven Seattle fertility clinics, plus a clinic in Bellingham and one in Spokane (plus one more in Seattle that did not provide data). Some of these fertility clinics have more than 30 years of experience in reproductive medicine. Several of these fertility clinics also have among the highest success rates in the country.

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In Washington, a New Law Bans Anonymous Sperm and Egg Donors

Time, July 22, 2011

Traditionally, the identities of egg and sperm donors have been tightly guarded secrets, numbers with no names attached, making it difficult for their biological offspring to ever make contact. That changes as Washington becomes the first state to chip away at that anonymity, with a controversial new law that guarantees children conceived with gametes from Washington sperm banks and egg donation agencies access — when they're 18 — to their donors' medical histories and their full names— unless the donors specifically opt out of being identified.

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