STATEMENT: RESOLVE + ASRM: Infertility Patients and Physicians Object to Latest Threats to Medical Research

February 10, 2025
For immediate release

Washington, DC – Barbara Collura, CEO, RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association and Sean Tipton, Chief Advocacy and Policy Officer, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the leading organization for professionals in the field, strongly reject the financial cuts imposed on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on February 7, 2025.  
  
“Medical research prolongs life, improves the quality of life and allows providers to bring new treatments that help people build their families. The pernicious plan would have a devastating impact on the universities that employ the bulk of our country’s biomedical researchers. Despite the fact that research in reproductive health has a history of being targeted by politicians, our country leads the world in pioneering medical research because we equip smart, hard-working scientists with laboratories and infrastructure to innovate and solve problems. To slash ‘indirect costs’ that accompany research grants that pay for things, including buildings, heat, and water, will starve the field of its ability to promote and preserve health.  
 
“We have a simple question for the American people: do you want your government to take a wrecking ball to research science? Think about how this might impact you or your family. If your child gets diagnosed with cancer that will impair their ability to have children, do you want them to have access to innovative treatments that have been developed and researched by the best biomedical research system in the world, or do you want to rely on the same treatments we have had for last fifty years? 
 
“We call for an immediate reversal of this misguided policy and urge all Americans to contact President Trump and Congress and demand just that.”