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“Yet nowhere has it been established that fertility care, for the people who need it, is a right.”
““The person working at the insurance company felt really bad about it,” Pellittieri recalled.”
“If infertility is a disease, it follows that procedures such as intrauterine insemination (IUI) and IVF are, if not exactly “cures” for that disease, then at least its best available treatments.”
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“A former staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, she has reported from nearly two dozen countries for the New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Guardian, New York, New York Review of Books, Elle, and many other publications.”
“Selective pronatalism persists today, sometimes explicitly encoded in law, leaving people like Irena ineligible to get pregnant within their own borders.”
“It embeds itself in our social and cultural messaging, and manifests in different tiers of insurance coverage, or in criteria and cutoffs established by fertility clinics or government bodies.”
“Even if we could agree on a definition of “regular,” other questions follow.”
“Those rounds of IUI have, at best, a 20 percent chance of succeeding, and can cost between $500 to $4,000.”
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“But she told me that their joy was tempered by the knowledge that, to have their second child, “We’ll have to go through this all over again.” In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the closest thing we have to a global statement of shared values, Article 16 affirms that “Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family.” A UN report also cites a consensus that “where in vitro fertilization is available within a State, it must not be unduly restricted.” In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that a Costa Rican court’s ban on IVF violated the human right to private and family life and the human right to found and raise a family.”
“But any attempt to lasso the motley sex lives of millions of infertile couples into a clinical definition inevitably leaves questions in its wake.”
“Pellittieri and her spouse were daunted by the expense.”
“Article continues after advertisement What scholars call “selective pronatalism” has a long history.”
“According to their insurance policy at the time, heterosexual couples could receive an infertility diagnosis after “one year of unprotected inter-course” without conception, while queer couples could be diagnosed only after six failed rounds of IUI, which they would have to pay for out of pocket.”