VA Wants to Give More Vets Access to Infertility Treatments, Drop Copays for Contraception

[Sherman A1]

The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to make it easier for some veterans to get fertility services, as well as drop birth control prescription copayments, beginning next fiscal year as part of its 2023 budget plan.

The VA's proposed budget requests legislation that would allow the department to expand a program that provides advanced fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to seriously injured veterans by including those who are single or in a same-sex relationship.

The department also has asked that it be allowed to cover treatment for seriously injured veterans who need donor sperm or eggs or require a surrogate to have children. And it is seeking the ability to reimburse adoption-related expenses for eligible veterans.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/18/va-wants-give-more-vets-access-infertility-treatments-drop-copays-contraception.html

[MANative]

1. More enablement of forced birth

There are no words to express my level of rage.

[Sherman A1]

2. I don't see anything about "forced" in the article

perhaps we are reading two different pieces.

[Tree-Hugger]

3. What's forced?

This is for couples and individuals - including LGBTQIA+ - who are making the choice to have children and need extra help for fertility treatments.

This also drops co-pays for birth control, which is a big Fucking deal and the opposite of forced birth. It makes birth control MORE accessible.

ETA: this is championed by a Dem. Conservatives don't like these measures because they offer fertility treatments to non-married couples as well as the queer community. They also oppose IVF funding either outright or with certain restrictions. I'm furious where you got the idea that any of this is forced birth.