Sec. 15. Fertility fraud.
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Sec. 15. Fertility fraud. The following individuals may bring an action against any health care provider, embryologist, or any other person involved in any stage of the treatment who knowingly or intentionally used the health care provider's, embryologist's, or person's own human reproductive material without the patient's informed written consent to treatment using the health care provider's, embryologist's, or person's human reproductive material:
(1)a patient who gives birth to a child after receiving assisted reproductive treatment
or any other artificial means used to cause pregnancy;
(2)the intended parent of the child born as a result of the assisted reproductive
treatment;
(3)the surviving spouse of a patient under paragraph (1); or
(4)a child born as a result of the treatment.