I guess I'm just perplexed at the wording and phrasing being used in the article, like it's not completely wrong, and somehow makes sense when it does not.
If you can't conceive because there's two women or two men, the chance that one or both of them is infertile is irrelevant. You can't make a child without a sperm and an egg. One of those two people will not have the other if they're the same sex.
The article stated sex, not gender. So they weren't playing the gender spectrum game. Did they genuinely not understand you can't will someone into being?
It's more of a beaurocratic loophole. Sexuality has no bearing either way on eligibility for IVF assistance, it doesn't disqualify or qualify you. So if you're gay can still get IVF assistance, but only if you're so infertile that you would qualify for assistance even as a heterosexual. Normally that is proven by trying and failing in a heterosexual relationship, but they can get a sperm count test or proof of polycystic ovaries or whatever.
Which leads to the perverse incentive that with a gay couple the one with the least functional reproductive system will be the one to sire the child, even though that comes with increased medical costs and risk of lifelong birth defects, just so they can freeload harder.
They can get a sperm donor or surrogate, but still need medical aid to make that work.
So can a regular man and woman couple.
I guess I'm just perplexed at the wording and phrasing being used in the article, like it's not completely wrong, and somehow makes sense when it does not.
If you can't conceive because there's two women or two men, the chance that one or both of them is infertile is irrelevant. You can't make a child without a sperm and an egg. One of those two people will not have the other if they're the same sex.
The article stated sex, not gender. So they weren't playing the gender spectrum game. Did they genuinely not understand you can't will someone into being?
It's more of a beaurocratic loophole. Sexuality has no bearing either way on eligibility for IVF assistance, it doesn't disqualify or qualify you. So if you're gay can still get IVF assistance, but only if you're so infertile that you would qualify for assistance even as a heterosexual. Normally that is proven by trying and failing in a heterosexual relationship, but they can get a sperm count test or proof of polycystic ovaries or whatever.
Which leads to the perverse incentive that with a gay couple the one with the least functional reproductive system will be the one to sire the child, even though that comes with increased medical costs and risk of lifelong birth defects, just so they can freeload harder.