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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5475
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 2121
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
REP. KENNEDY, 119th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING FERTILITY FRAUD BY PHYSICIANS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to provide that: (1) No 1
physician shall knowingly use the physician's own sperm to inseminate 2
a patient without the patient's consent; and (2) any person harmed by a 3
physician knowingly using his own sperm to inseminate a patient 4
without the patient's consent may bring an action against such physician 5
in the Superior Court to recover the actual damages sustained by such 6
person, together with the cost of the suit, including a reasonable 7
attorney's fee. 8
Statement of Purpose:
To protect patients undergoing fertility treatments from physician
misconduct.