Thu Nov 9, 2023 – 6:40 pm EST
SACRAMENTO, California (LifeSiteNews) – The California Assembly is considering legislation that would extend health insurance coverage of fertility drugs to men by defining their natural inability to become pregnant as “infertility” in the far-left state’s latest show of support for radical gender-fluid ideology.
SB 729, which already was passed in the state Senate in October, would “require large and small group health care service 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,” with “infertility” defined as the inability to reproduce “either as an individual or with their partner” without medical intervention, without any consideration of the distinct mechanics by which the two sexes contribute to reproduction, or whether or not a couple is comprised of both sexes.
The bill also declares that “coverage for the treatment of infertility and fertility services shall be provided without discrimination on the basis of” numerous identity factors, including “gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.”
The Washington Free Beacon reported that
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