Posted on 08/25/2024 6:11:57 PM PDT by simpson96
NEW YORK -- A historic class action lawsuit filed by a same-sex couple this week demands New York City's health plan cover the costly IVF treatments needed for them to become biological parents.
Attorneys representing Corey Briskin and Nicholas Maggipinto say when Briskin was employed as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan in 2021, he was denied the same IVF benefits that the city offers female city employees and male city employees who have female partners.
Briskin and Maggipinto say they have been wanting to have biological children for years.
They already have a surrogate but each cycle of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, to conceive could cost tens of thousands of dollars because under the city's health plan, they, as a gay couple, don't qualify for coverage.
Briskin and Maggipinto are now suing the city over this on the grounds of discrimination.
"What we're fighting for is equality in the context of a human right as we see it," Briskin said.
"The city will enfranchise those who are capable of being parents, but that doesn't include gay men," Maggipinto said.
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"It's misleading at best to say that they provide benefits regardless of sexual orientation when we're never eligible from the get-go. This is not a hurdle, rather, it's a complete barrier to entry," Maggipinto said.
But they remain optimistic. The couple has since heard from others in the same situation, and others who gave up years ago.
"To think that there were families that could've been built but weren't is really disheartening," Briskin said.
The couple says if the timing were up to them from the beginning, their kids would have been 8 years old by now.
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Babies are a gift from God. No one has a “right” to a child.
So the city should pay for them to have a child to perv on?
End stage empire craziness. Worse than Weimar.
THERE ARE SOME THINGS TAXPAYER MONEY SHOULD NOT COVER.
They can just keep on ejaculating in each other’s butts and maybe they’ll get lucky ...
Huh. You'd think after "years" they'd figure out how to do that.
Great pic, great movie.
A surrogate should not need IVF. They could just do AI.
I admit, I’m surprised the city did cave immediately.
they really look happy to be hell bound
How can a country have abortion clinics and ivf clinics?
They've come a long way from simply wanting to adopt, if "building families" was really the goal.
-PJ
Two males that desire to raise a newborn?
Imagine going back 40, 50, 60, 70 years to when you were 10 or so, and knowing two guys that desired that.
Your mileage may vary...
Regards,
Why the heck does the city cover IVF to begin with? It’s not essential healthcare.
During the Weimar Republic period, Berlin was a wide open town. To a lesser degree
some other big cities. In the capital, Weimar, not at all. All the old anti-sodomy laws
from before the war were still in place.
Degeneracy was tolerated, but it was not public policy. No political party openly promoted it.
It was certainly not taught in schools.
Future civilizations needing an historical example of extreme degeneracy will not be talking about Weimar.
A “human right” like abortion, gay marriage. Un-natural law is the opposite of a human right.
So our judiciary will rule for them.
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