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New York tells insurers to cover infertility treatments regardless of gender or orientation

Posted on February 24, 2021 at 7:21 am by Brett Levine

Embryologist Rick Slifkin uses a microscope to view an embryo, visible on a monitor, right, at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, in New York, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Fertility clinics have put a new twist on how to make babies: A "two-mom" approach that lets female same-sex couples share the biological role. One woman's eggs are mixed in a lab dish with donor sperm, then implanted in the other woman who carries the pregnancy. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

(East Farmingdale, NY)- For some New York residents struggling to create a family of their own, yesterday Governor Cuomo announced a new directive which requires insurers to cover infertility treatments for New Yorker’s regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Read more about it, here.

Photo: Embryologist Rick Slifkin uses a microscope to view an embryo, visible on a monitor, right, at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, in New York, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)