The bill, which passed the Senate last month, would require insurance companies to cover in-vitro fertilization procedures. With the change in definition, this would also include forcing the firms to cover surrogacy for gay males.
Co-author of the bill Sen. Caroline Menjivar (D) said the bill "will ensure that queer couples no longer have to pay more out of pocket to start families than non-queer families." She continued, "This bill is critical to achieving full-lived equality for LGBTQ+ people, as well as advancing well-rounded and comprehensive health care for all Californians."
An organization called Men Having Babies boasted that the bill will "remove financial barriers" for gay men who wish to rent a woman's womb to have a child who has the DNA of one of the males in the relationship.
The group states on its website, "Central to our fight for more equitable access to parenting options is what we know from our combined experiences: The anguish and yearning that same-sex couples and singles feel due to their inability to reproduce without medical intervention is equal to the anguish of heterosexual couples who suffer from 'medical infertility.'"
According to the Free Beacon, the opposition to SB 729 comes from California business and insurance groups who claim that it will raise insurance premiums by more than $330 million a year. Others point to the erosion of the traditional family structure.
"Under this bill, most insurance plans would be required to provide in vitro fertilization services based on someone's relationship status or sexual orientation," said Emma Waters with the Heritage Foundation. "For single men or male same-sex couples, this means they would need to access a surrogate to carry their child. So the bill is outlining what adults have the right to, but nowhere does it address the needs of the child or safety concerns regarding the child either in IVF or in gestational surrogacy."
"This bill seeks to further erode the father, mother, and child nuclear family and make everyone in society pay for it to further a make-believe cause named 'fertility equality,'" said Greg Burt, director of the California Family Council. "The reason healthy singles and same-sex couples can't reproduce has nothing to do with infertility; it has to do with biology."
SB 729 would not affect any "entity that enters into a contract with the State Department of Health Care Services for the delivery of health care services pursuant to specified provisions."
Reader Comments
So in the classifieds expect to see a lot more accommodation adverts.
Maybe a special category in Airbnb?
If we’re dead set on doing this retard thing we might as well go full retard, no? [Link]
... and thinking of it again ...
... isn't this a public admission that, no, men cannot get pregnant, and no, men cannot have babies ?!? And thus that the woke narrative is nothing but BS ?!?
Absurdity always ends up collapsing under its own weight. We just have to be patient and wait it out, eventually they’ll eat themselves.
Which really shocked me, since their life was at stake.
I think we are observing the same phenomenon.
And while I am not a Darwinist, I believe micro-evolution is a thing. Meaning, unfit individuals will get sorted out.
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It's not just renting a womb, as there is a woman's egg required - who pays for that. This scheme seems more like a legal means to buy babies. And in the case of two homosexuals, it seems more like a means of buying male babies. Those male children will be at extremely high risk of being sexually assaulted by one or both of his "parents". Gays seem to gravitate toward children.
As stated above, children need the influence of a real woman as their mother, as children's development as members of our larger society is in alignment with the world as it has existed for millions of years. I wonder if nature makes some men gay for a reason. That they are not intended to reproduce. Perhaps its nature's way of limiting population growth. There is an old expression that applies here - "Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should".
Instead, lets let nature decide who reproduces...