Ever since the Supreme Court of Alabama’s February ruling that parents can sue for the wrongful death of their embryonic children, politicians have been tripping over themselves to protect the in vitro fertilization (IVF) industry.
The Alabama legislature passed legislation to give blanket civil and criminal immunity to IVF clinics. President Trump said he will make IVF “free” if he is re-elected. Governor Tim Walz claimed that he wouldn’t have his kids without IVF (not true, but it was a good talking point).
A year before the pro-IVF stampede started, California State Senator Caroline Menjivar introduced SB 729, which would mandate that insurers cover IVF for single people and same-sex couples. She wants to “ensure that queer couples no longer have to pay more out of pocket to start families than non-queer families.” SB 729 defines everyone who is not in a heterosexual relationship as “infertile.”
SB 729 was sent to Governor Newsom’s desk yesterday. You can contact him here to ask for his veto.
The country’s support for IVF and children on demand is the flip side of its support for abortion and disposal of children. Both treat children as property to be bought, sold, and discarded according to adults’ desires.
A couple weeks ago I had a close-up look at how cheap life is when it’s for sale. Two little girls came to our information table at the mall to look at the fetal models. I asked their mother what she thought about abortion, and she said she would “terminate a child in the womb.” She said that she had had the girls alone, via IVF, and that she would have terminated them if she wanted to. I asked why she would be okay with killing them before birth, when obviously she wouldn’t kill them now. She contradicted me, to say that she would indeed kill them now if they got sick or something else came up. She said several times that she had thought a lot about it and was very sure of her position. She then volunteered that she had helped her mother kill herself via assisted suicide. Isn’t it wonderful, she said, that we live in a place where we can decide whether to live or die. I pointed out that the babies don’t get to make that decision and she gathered the girls and walked away.
That woman most likely had to pay money out of pocket to buy her daughters. Imagine how cheap life would be to people whose children are funded by their insurers.
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