Whereas infertility is a disease recognized by the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association, and, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a term used to describe the inability of a couple to get pregnant or the inability of a woman to carry a pregnancy to term , and defined clinically as not being able to achieve pregnancy after 1 year of having regular, unprotected intercourse, or after 6 months if the woman is older than 35 years of age ; Whereas infertility may also be determined based on a person’s inability to reproduce either as a single individual or with their partner without medical intervention, or determined by a licensed physician’s findings based on a patient’s medical, sexual, and reproductive history, age, physical findings, or diagnostic testing; Whereas reproductive and infertility issues affect a substantial number of Americans, and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that about 12 percent of women in the United States have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant and 9 percent of men experience infertility; Whereas, according to the NIH, there are clear racial and ethnic disparities in infertility prevalence, and such racial disparities are not unique to reproductive issues and unfortunately widely pervade the United States health care system; Whereas Blacks, Hispanics, Ashkenazi Jews, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, East Asians, Indians and Pakistanis from the Punjab region, and persons of Caribbean, Mediterranean, French Canadian, or Middle Eastern ancestry suffer from disproportionately higher rates of certain diseases and gynecological, endocrine, and autoimmune disorders, that may contribute to higher rates of infertility among these populations