
<p>Liberals have been increasingly active in changing definitions and, thus, the meanings of commonly known words for furthering their political agenda. An upcoming law in California hopes to change the definition of the term “infertility” to make gay men eligible for health insurance covering the costs of their surrogacy.</p>



<p>Bill SB 729, titled “Health care coverage: treatment for infertility and fertility services,” passed California’s Senate last month.</p>



<p>Introduced by Democrat Senator Caroline Menjivar, the bill changes the essential definition of infertility by adding the word “status” to its meaning. Infertility has originally been defined as the inability of a male or female to conceive by mating with the opposite sex. But the new definition in the bill calls it “a disease, condition, or status” that would apply to not only couples but individuals. Thus it would cover same-sex couples as well as singles.</p>



<p>The bill further includes insurance coverage for in-vitro fertilization procedures that gay couples who want children use to become parents. The bill’s text says:</p>



<p><em>The bill would revise the definition of infertility and would remove the exclusion of in vitro fertilization from coverage.</em> ;</p>



<p>Since men are naturally unable to get pregnant and/or give birth, gays necessarily need a woman’s body to have a child. The sperm from a gay male can be fused with an egg from a woman in a test tube to create a test-tube embryo that is planted in a woman’s uterus to grow into a baby. After the woman gives birth, the gay man can take and raise the baby as his biological father. In the case of partnered gay men, the baby is raised with the biological man’s gay partner without the baby’s mother, who carried and delivered the baby.</p>



<p>Conservative news site <em>The Washington Free Beacon </em>quoted the website of a gay advocacy group, Men Having Babies, arguing the need for gay men’s right to reproduce.</p>



<p><em>They,</em> too,<em> might feel anguish over not having biological offspring due to circumstances outside their control — not medical but social circumstances.</em> ;</p>



<p>The group calls for gay men’s right to reproduce as similar to one’s right to a job, housing, and medical treatment, and underscores that such a right “must be universal if equality is the goal.”</p>



<p>At the same time, the bill has caused concern for those who believe in traditional families and their values. Greg Burt, director of the California Family Council, was cited by <em>The Post Millennial</em> calling it an attack on the nuclear family as we know it:</p>



<p><em>This bill seeks to erode further</em> the father, mother, and child nuclear family and make everyone in society pay for it to further a make-believe cause named &#8216;fertility equality.<em>&#8216;</em></p>



<p>One conservative voice on Twitter called out California’s Governor Gavin Newsom “absolutely wicked” for giving gay men the right to use women’s bodies in the name of fertility equality.</p>



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<p>In an opinion piece published in The New York Post, Daniel McCarthy wrote that this bill socializes family. McCarthy wrote that this law potentially replaces the natural law of family, where fertility is based on procreation via sex. </p>



<p>He pointed to the government’s role in procreation by asking rhetorically: “Why expropriate anything else when you can seize the factories that make men and women?”</p>

California Bill Redefines ‘Infertility’ to Include Gays
