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Lawmakers, clinicians push to modernize infertility statute to expand access for LGBTQ people and others
Summary
Legislators and fertility specialists testified in support of S715/H1190 and related bills to update the definition of infertility, expand coverage (including care by midwives and gestational carriers), and remove arbitrary insurer eligibility restrictions that advocates say discriminate against LGBTQ people and others.
Senator Cyr and Representative Natalie Higgins framed S715/H1190 as an update to Massachusetts’ infertility statute to reflect modern clinical practice and to remove gendered or heteronormative barriers that can deny coverage to LGBTQ families and others who need assisted reproductive technology.
Clinicians, including reproductive specialists and a…
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