The pricy bill now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom and is supported by LGBTQ+ groups who would benefit from it as well as abortion advocates concerned about the future of reproductive rights under Trump.
California lawmakers sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday that would expand healthcare coverage to include in vitro fertilization amid concerns that a potential Trump presidency could threaten access to reproductive healthcare. The Democratic controlled state does not currently require insurance companies to cover fertility treatment, including IVF, which involves collecting eggs from ovaries, fertilizing them with sperm in a lab and then implanting them in a uterus.
Abortion laws are now up to each state, and millions of women have since lost local access to the procedure. While Trump has said he supports IVF and would not impose a national abortion ban, his conservative supporters have posed ethical and religious concerns about how embryos should be treated and when life really begins. During the IVF process, some embryos may not survive and can be discarded if no longer needed.
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