Utah Code 76-7-402. Genetic material misuse

76-7-402. Genetic material misuse.

(1)	A health care provider may not knowingly use the health care provider’s own gamete, when providing assisted reproductive treatment to a patient, without the patient’s written consent.

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Assisted reproductive treatment: means a method of causing pregnancy by any means other than through sexual intercourse, including:

(a)	intrauterine or intracervical insemination;

(b)	donation of eggs or sperm;

(c)	donation of embryos;

(d)	in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer; and

(e)

intracytoplasmic sperm injection. See Utah Code 76-7-401

Gamete: means a cell containing a haploid complement of DNA that has the potential to form an embryo when combined with another gamete, including:

(a)

a sperm;

(b)	an egg; or

(c)

nuclear DNA from one individual combined with the:

(i)	cytoplasm of another individual; or

(ii)	cytoplasmic DNA of another individual. See Utah Code 76-7-401 Health care provider: means an individual listed in Subsection 78B-3-403(12). See Utah Code 76-7-401 written: includes any handwriting, typewriting, printing, electronic storage or transmission, or any other method of recording information or fixing information in a form capable of being preserved. See Utah Code 76-1-101.5
(2)	A health care provider who violates Subsection (1) is guilty of a third degree felony.

Enacted by Chapter 133, 2021 General Session