Socializing family itself: why the left wants free fertility treatments for all

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Socializing family itself: why the left wants free fertility treatments for all

By Daniel McCarthy
June 12, 2023

Silicon Valley used to be California’s hotbed of innovation.

Today the most radical new inventions come from Sacramento.

The state Legislature is even pioneering a novel kind of socialism: bio-socialism.

The old, industrial socialism meant asserting control over the means of production.

Biological socialism is when government manages the means of reproduction.

Enter SB 729, a bill that redefines fertility and infertility in the Golden State.

Until now, infertility was a medical condition.

State Sen. Caroline Menjivar’s legislation makes it a “status” that applies to same-sex couples and singles.

And the law provides a remedy.

SB 729 requires that employer-provided insurance plans cover fertility treatments for people who could, in fact, conceive children if they tried to do it the only way that naturally leads to reproduction.

Families used to begin with a mother and a father.

In the brave new world of our blue states, they can begin with legislative fiat and an insurance company.

California’s proposed law would make employers, and ultimately everyone else, financially responsible for in-vitro fertilization treatments and surrogacy options for same-sex couples and single people.

Biological socialism, like the old-fashioned kind, aims to equalize conditions — in this case, the conditions that apply to natural families and artificially commissioned ones.

The Washington Free Beacon quotes the website of Men Having Babies, an advocacy group championing the legislation in California and similar efforts in New York, New Jersey, Maine and elsewhere: “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.’”

The same reasoning, reductio ad absurdum or not, applies to single people.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/12/why-the-left-wants-free-fertility-treatments-for-all/