{"id":5177,"date":"2015-03-24T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2015-03-24T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:55:12","slug":"equal-ivf-treatment-for-same-sex-couples-passes-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5177","title":{"rendered":"Equal IVF Treatment for Same-Sex Couples Passes Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Cheryl Kagan (D-17), SB 416 <\/a>requires insurers to give equal coverage for in-vitro fertilization and artificial insemination to lesbian couples. The bill passed third reading in the Senate by 37-10.<\/p>\n

While 36%, or 5 of 14 Republicans, voted for the bill, it won support of 97%, or 32 of 33 Democrats. The Republican split on the bill shows how far support for same-sex rights has progressed even since the 2012 referendum on marriage equality. Republicans may be beginning to realize that they win more when they focus on economic issues.<\/p>\n

A corresponding bill, HB 838<\/a>, has been sponsored in the House by Del. Terri Hill. Here is the vote on the bill in the Senate (Republicans<\/em> are in italics<\/em>):<\/p>\n

Voting YEA<\/strong> (32D, 5R)
\nMiller
\nAstle
\nBenson
\nBrochin
\nConway
\nCurrie
\nEdwards<\/em>
\nFeldman
\nFerguson
\nGladden
\nGuzzone
\nHershey<\/em>
\nJennings<\/em>
\nKagan
\nKasemeyer
\nKelley
\nKing
\nKlausmeier
\nLee
\nMadaleno
\nManno
\nMathias
\nMcFadden
\nMiddleton
\nMontgomery
\nMuse
\nNathan-Pulliam
\nPeters
\nPinsky
\nPugh
\nRamirez
\nRaskin
\nRosapepe
\nSerafini<\/em>
\nWaugh<\/em>
\nYoung
\nZirkin<\/p>\n

Voting NAY<\/strong> (1D, 9R)
\nBates<\/em>
\nCasilly<\/em>
\nDeGrange
\nEckardt<\/em>
\nHough<\/em>
\nNorman<\/em>
\nReady<\/em>
\nReilly
\n<\/em>Sailling<\/em>
\nSimonaire<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Cheryl Kagan (D-17), SB 416 requires insurers to give equal coverage for in-vitro fertilization and artificial insemination to lesbian couples. The bill passed third reading in the Senate by 37-10. While 36%, or 5 of 14 Republicans, voted for the bill, it won support of 97%, or 32 of … Continue reading Equal IVF Treatment for Same-Sex Couples Passes Senate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[1582],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt","tag-cheryl-kagan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1lv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}