🚨 Tell Your Legislator: Oppose Mandated Insurance Coverage for Surrogacy, IVF
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🚨 Tell your legislator: oppose mandated insurance coverage for surrogacy, IVF
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On Wednesday and Thursday, House and Senate committees will be hearing bills that would require all insurance health plans offered in Minnesota, both private and publicly funded, to cover surrogacy and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Many couples in the U.S. are facing painful journeys with infertility and not receiving care to treat the source of their own infertility. Instead, couples are placed on a one-track path with IVF, or in other cases, surrogacy. When navigating infertility, we must remember that children, no matter how young, deserve life from their parents.
The birth of children, regardless of conception status, is always a wonderful blessing from God. Our concern for the protection of life is precisely why we are concerned about the routine practices of the assisted reproduction industry. One report from the United Kingdom estimated that only 7% of embryos resulted in a live birth. The true number is likely lower. The rest are frozen indefinitely, tested and destroyed in medical research, or promptly destroyed.
Commercial surrogacy treats children as commodities and exploits vulnerable women. You can read more about these issues here.
Families in Minnesota struggling with infertility face great heartbreak, pain, and difficult decisions as they navigate loss from infertility. That's why our legislators should seek to cover restorative reproductive medicine (RRM) in health insurance plans rather than surrogacy and IVF.
RRM includes any scientific approach that seeks to cooperate with or restore the physiology and anatomy of the human reproductive system without the use of methods that are inherently suppressive, circumventive, or destructive. You can read more here.
The bottom line is that these bills - S.F.1961, H.F.4609, H.F.1758 - would require all Minnesotans to pay for intentional parent loss. Surrogacy intentionally takes a child from the only mother the child has known to place him or her with the person paying for the contract. Please ask your legislator to vote no on these bills.