Thu Jun 15, 2023 – 5:42 pm EDT
SACRAMENTO (LifeSiteNews) – In the latest example of the Golden State’s efforts to satisfy the LGBT lobby, California lawmakers are in the process of redefining “infertility” in state law to extend mandatory coverage of in vitro fertilization (IVF) to homosexual partners.
Fox News reports that Senate Bill 729, which the California Senate passed in May, defines “infertility” as “a person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention,” a definition encompassing couples that are naturally non-procreative because they are comprised of two men or two women, putting them under state mandates for insurance companies to cover IVF procedures and surrogacy services.
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It would also “require large group, small group, and individual health care service care plan contracts and disability insurance policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility services” and “revise the definition of infertility, and would remove the exclusion of in vitro fertilization from coverage.”
In California, the average cost for IVF procedures
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