The Chick Mission

The Texas Senate is considering HB 1649 , which improves health benefit coverage for fertility preservation when young adults are diagnosed with cancer.

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Message - Please add why fertility preservation means something to you. A personal story, a friend who struggled, your own fertility experience. For example:

My name is_____. I am proud to share I am a cancer survivor who fought and won three battles with cancer during my 30s. My experience with cancer meant that my life saving treatment had a direct effect on my ability to become a biological mother.

I am contacting you today to ask for your support for HB 1649. Please encourage a vote of “Yes” as soon as possible.

I am working with The Chick Mission and the Texans Protecting Parenthood After Cancer Coalition to advocate for the passage of legislation to help young adult cancer patients become future parents.
If you are unaware, when you are diagnosed with cancer during your childbearing years, the recommended treatment plan that will save your life (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and/or long-term drug therapy) will often result in infertility. Many of these patients have to choose between life saving measures and having a family (unless they have $15,000 to immediately freeze their eggs before treatment.)

7,800 Texans (approximately) between 15 - 39 years old will be diagnosed with cancer in 2023 and a majority risk infertility unless they preserve their fertility. These procedures are not covered by most insurance companies and I would like your help to change that.

This bill would require health benefit plans regulated by the State of Texas to provide coverage for fertility preservation service to individuals with coverage who will receive a medically necessary treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, that the American Society of Clinical Oncology or the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has established may directly or indirectly cause impaired fertility. The bill requires the covered fertility preservation services to be standard procedures to preserve fertility consistent with established medical practices or professional guidelines published by those societies.

As your constituent, please know this is personally important to me and I hope that you will support this legislation and future Texas families. Together, we can protect parenthood, future families and cancer patients in our state.

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