Mon Oct 31, 2022 – 12:09 pm EDT
(Live Action News) – In April, Nicholas Maggipinto and Corey Briskin — a “married” gay couple — filed a lawsuit, along with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, against the City of New York. The claim alleges discrimination because the health insurance plan for City employees does not pay for access to the full range of reproductive technologies that Maggipinto and Briskin require in order to create the ‘wanted’ children they wish to raise together. The case, which the couple hopes will cause a domino effect across the nation, shines a light on children’s rights, and whether or not a child’s value should be determined based on how much an adult wants him or her.
“It’s the tie that binds abortion and reproductive technology, and that is determining a child’s right to life based on their level of wantedness,” Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us and contributor to The Federalist, told Live Action News. “So abortion says, ‘If a child is unwanted we can violate their right to life and force them out of existence.’ And third-party reproduction says, ‘If a child is very wanted we can force them into existence even
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