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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the original OP and am just commenting for the first time here besides my original post.  I think you can write your state legislators (emailing them is easy) and say you think this is unfair.  Whether IVF should be covered is irrelevant to this discussion.  The point is that the law gives certain people rights and does not others, and for what purpose?  Religious legislators wanted to only have benefits (at a huge value as we all know and it may be the difference between some having children and others not) for those who are married to the opposite sex and are impregnated by their husband's sperm.  This is very unfair.  And why?  Because some religious legislators (or those who got lobbied by religious groups) decided to push something through under the radar?

I find this really disheartening.  State sanctioned discrimination and social engineering.

Yes, to the PP who asked the question, you are excluded if you are married but need donor sperm.  Generally, I think the idea was to exclude gays but others got caught up in the discriminatory net because they needed to draft it in a way that excluded gays without being completely obvious.  Or maybe they also wanted to discriminate against single women.  Horrible.  Just one of the 1100 places in MD law where gays get screwed and nobody notices.  Or cares.[/quote]

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