Newsom: “Starting a family should be attainable for those who dream to have a child – inclusive of LGBTQ+ families.” (Photo credit Liz Hafalia / San Francisco Chronicle)[/caption]
Starting in July 2025, most insurance companies in California must cover certain in vitro fertilization expenses for couples seeking to treat infertility, under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on September 29.
Religious employers are exempt from the law, which also revises the definition of “infertility” to apply to same-sex couples and individuals.
Gov. Newsom signed Senate Bill 729 on September 29, according to a press release from his office.
The California legislature passed the pro-IVF bill in August. In a September 29 letter to state senators, Newsom wrote that he “wholeheartedly agree[s] that starting a family should be attainable for those who dream to have a child – inclusive of LGBTQ+ families.”
Before Newsom signed SB 729, “infertility” was defined in the state’s Health and Safety Code as “the presence of a demonstrated condition recognized by a licensed physician and surgeon as a cause of infertility, or… the inability to conceive a pregnancy or to carry a pregnancy to a live birth after a year or more of regular sexual relations without contraception,” according to Justia US Law.
SB 729 edited these various definitions slightly and introduces another one: “A person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention….”
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Lord forgive them for they know not what they do.
“… revises the definition of “infertility” to apply to same-sex couples and individuals.” So if a lonely person, say a woman, wants a baby over a cat, but doesn’t want to deal with visitation rights of the father, since that person is considered a family she can go the IVF route on the insurance company’s dime. Just what we don’t need–more single parent families.
As a normal human, I lack wings and therefore cannot fly. I want Gavin to pay for my flight school. Only fair.
Same sex couples who raise children are committing child abuse.
IVF is immoral and should be illegal. Science must never be used for selfish, evil purposes. All children deserve a real mother and father who naturally conceive them. LGBTs should be prohibited by law from immoral “marriages,” and from being around or adopting children– for the safety and well-being of the child. Adoption is the only option for infertile couples. Newsom should establish and support pregnancy centers for mothers-to-be who cannot care for their children– and outlaw all abortions. Infertile couples should adopt these out-of-wedlock babies.
No to IVF, adopt instead: Adoption is the option.
Adoption should not be allowed for same sex couples. It is child abuse.
Ron : You are right. Adoption is an option for women considering an abortion or a husband and wife that can’t have a child.
Yes! It should be illegal for LGBTs– singles or couples– to adopt children! Years ago, prospective adoptive parents used to be fully investigated for the kind of home they had to offer a child, including faith in God, solid Christian morals, and church-going, too. Those good standards need to be brought back to America. No irresponsible bums who can’t hold a job, no one involved in anything shady or immoral, no alcoholics, dope addicts, or anything immoral in the family home. And no abusive, dysfunctional married couples, either. I would also add, no smoking– extremely harmful.
Democrats are immoral and should be illegal.
I would agree, but there are registered Republicans doing the same thing. IVF is wrong for many reasons. See my post below for the many serious reasons it is wrong and should be stopped. Many adult children born from IVF are now speaking out about the problems they are having as a result of being conceived in that manner. We need to listen to them for our own sake and theirs.
Gruesome Newsom is just plain weird.
Restrainer, yes, “Gruesome Newsom” is “just plain weird!” Like Frankenstein, on Halloween! As you may recall– when the first “Test Tube Baby” (IVF)– named Louise Brown– was created in a petri dish in a lab, and artificially inserted into her mother’s womb, and then the artificially-conceived child was carried to term successfully, and born in England in 1978– the public was very shocked. They worried about the consequences for the little girl, of being non-humanly, artificially conceived. Test-tube babies were not acceptable to many people, who were in horror of Science “playing God,” at that time. They were right. IVF should be illegal.
Who are you to say that my grandchildren, three of whom were conceived by IVF, should never have existed? You would deny those beautiful children their right to life? How is that prolife? Who are you to play God and decide who can or can’t exist?
Our children are not responsible for our sins, unless they follow our footsteps, and unless we repent, it is we who will suffer the consequences. IVF is wrong for many reasons: dangers to women’s bodes when eggs are unnaturally forced out; causes death of fertilized eggs (fetuses, babies) that are not used, some thrown in the trash; leads to some children purposely left without their natural parents and misuses surrogate mothers. One man on a secular radio station admitted he donated his sperm over a hundred times in one area which makes unusually possible children in that area marrying siblings.
Correction to my third line. That should be “bodies” not “bodes”.
You’ve got it all wrong. It is wonderful that your grandchildren were among the very few lucky oves, who got a chance to live a real life. How many of their brothers and sisters will be eternally frozen as embryos– or else have already been killed, due to the Satanic evil of IVF? IVF should be illegal. All children deserve to be naturally conceived and born– just the way God intended. No more wrongful human scientists “playing God,” trying to wrongfully create human babies in “test tubes” and petri dishes. That’s sickening.
Your grandchildren are precious. I don’t think any readers here would dispute that. Yet, your grandchildren are precious in God’s sight and ours, both those who were brought to birth as well as those who were disposed of before ever getting even a chance to see the light of day. Who was your adult child to play God and end the lives of some of their children? I hope you pray for your beloved deceased grandchildren as well as those you’re blessed to enjoy. And, may no more be sent down the drain.
prolife? Unfortunately, the ones “playing God” are the doctors and scientists who reap financial gains from cryopreservation. They’re the ones who get to decide who can and can’t exist.
Do they teach biology at Santa Clara University?
Newsom should know that two males cannot produce a child.
And, Newsom isn’t paying for IVF for homosexuals. We are.
Should we be forced to pay for prostitutes for people who can’t get a date? Why not?
It’s good that Catholics like JD Vance and Greg Abbott didn’t go to “Catholic” schools.