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Article: Infertility and the ADA: health insurance coverage for infertility treatment. (Americans with Disabilities Act)
- Article from:
- Defense Counsel Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 International Association of Defense Counsels. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy tells his mother what he is going to do when he is a daddy. A three-year-old girl is upset because she can't find the bottle to feed her "baby" doll.
The idea of parenthood and family is ingrained and taken for granted in our society. But those who are physically unable to conceive, impregnate or carry a pregnancy frequently find their circumstances trivialized and ignored. As medical research advances, myths about infertility have retreated, but it is still treated with suspicion.
Infertility is now recognized as a disease, yet its treatment still is not provided full insurance coverage. With the advent of the Americans with Disabilities ...