A gay married couple is suing New York City because one man’s health insurance plan didn’t cover the cost of a surrogate to carry the baby. Six months before their wedding is “when they first became aware of the eye-watering cost of biological parenthood for gay men.”
Two gay men who both attended law school filed a legal complaint against the City of New York arguing that not having access to a woman's reproductive potential is a form of discrimination, and that they are entitled to have the City pay for a "surrogate".https://t.co/bEvEGlyoV4 pic.twitter.com/tq8pD8UrNc
— Women's Voices (@WomenReadWomen) October 1, 2022
The Guardian reports:
They couldn’t afford it. [Nicholas] Maggipinto earns a corporate lawyer’s salary but is saddled with student debt. Briskin used to work for the City of New York as an assistant district attorney, earning about $60,000 a year. His employment benefits had included generous health insurance. But when they read the policy, they discovered they were the only class of people to be excluded from IVF coverage. Infertility was defined as an inability to have a child through heterosexual sex or intrauterine insemination. That meant straight people and lesbians working for the City of New York would have the costs of IVF covered, but gay male couples could never be eligible.
This isn’t an oversight, it’s discrimination, [Corey] Briskin says. “The policy is the product of a time when there was a misconception, a stereotype, a prejudice against couples that were made up of two men – that they were not capable of raising children because there was no female figure in that relationship.”
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There is that tricky business of having to have a biological female carry the baby.
One of the men is a former sex crimes prosecutor who compared surrogacy to prostitution, and reduced the violence, rape, imprisonment and mortal danger involved in the sex trafficking industry to "not being compensated for sex work". pic.twitter.com/exw1O7JqRq
— Women's Voices (@WomenReadWomen) October 1, 2022
“Gay men now want insurance companies to treat being born male as a disability or as a protected category, one which requires paid compensation. They are protesting the ‘unfairness’ of not having been born biologically female.” pic.twitter.com/4QqpUO4Y2P
— Women's Voices (@WomenReadWomen) October 1, 2022
Even worse: “Maggipinto earns a corporate lawyer’s salary but is saddled with student debt.”
But I thought men could get pregnant…
— Regina Phalange’s cat (@mkp513) October 1, 2022
Gross entitlement.
— IDD64 (@IDD64) October 1, 2022
What would they do if no women were willing to come forward to be surrogates? Would they be prepared to force a woman to carry their child?
— Tara (@shewasmyfriend) October 1, 2022
Probably sue them for discriminating against them
— AJWM (@ajwmcs26) October 1, 2022
What? So, women are a resource to rent now?
— Alex Knickerbocker (@hframpton617) October 1, 2022
Monty Python literally made fun of this in 1976.
— Jeffinitely a Rigid Catholic (@JPZang) October 1, 2022
Handmaid's Tale, but woke aligned
— Gabriel Melo (@g_meloesilva) October 1, 2022
Stuff like this is the inevitable outcome of mixing rights and priveliges, aka defining rights positively.
— @PsychoWedge (@PsychoWedge1) October 1, 2022
The commodification of human life is a great tragedy.
— Zelex (@OBEhizele) October 1, 2022
Infertility is just that. BOTH these men are fertile. New York is Woke however and likely to believe men can give birth so it’s anyones guess what the outcome will be. The next step will be fertile single people saying they face discrimination since they don’t have a partner.
— DoryGenderAtheist 🦕🦖 (@FifeRight14) October 1, 2022
Agreed. This path leads straight to incel men having a “right” to sex and being allowed to buy a “girlfriend”.
— Beldame 🔮 (@coyoterose) October 1, 2022
This amount of entitlement definitely disqualifies them to be allowed to raise children. At least I would hope so.
— Günter Zöchbauer freelance Angular, Flutter, Rust (@gzoechi) October 1, 2022
Life is cruel: you can’t change sex, and you can’t procreate with a member of the same sex. Why is this so difficult to accept?
— 木人 🥷🏼 (@fionayamamoto) October 1, 2022
How did Pete and Chasten Buttigieg manage to afford it? We’re guessing they paid for it themselves, although it wouldn’t surprise us if the whole affair were covered by the federal government.
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