IVF

Few states extend fertility treatment coverage to Medicaid recipients

BY: - August 15, 2023

As more states require private insurers to cover fertility-related health care, many efforts to extend similar protections to Medicaid patients this year have foundered over cost concerns. Only two states provide significant fertility coverage through Medicaid: New York, which offers fertility medications, and Illinois, where Medicaid will cover the storageĀ of sperm or eggs for those […]

COMMENTARY

Why in vitro fertilization is at risk in Ohio

BY: - August 26, 2022

Human life needs conception to occur, even when using technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). But conception is not the same as personhood. You can’t reduce a very nuanced matter to a voting points game. When you politicize medical issues, Ohio families get hurt. My children are my world. As difficult as parenting can […]

IVF patients, doctors share concerns about new Ohio bill recognizing ‘personhood’ at conception

BY: - July 18, 2022

The following article was originally published on News5Cleveland.com and is published in the Ohio Capital Journal under a content-sharing agreement. Unlike other OCJ articles, it is not available for free republication by other news outlets as it is owned by WEWS in Cleveland.   It took Mindi Axner three-and-a-half years, at least one miscarriage and […]

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Ohio Republicans introduce bill that could ban IVF by recognizing ‘personhood’ from conception

BY: - July 13, 2022

The following article was originally published on News5Cleveland.com and is published in the Ohio Capital Journal under a content-sharing agreement. Unlike other OCJ articles, it is not available for free republication by other news outlets as it is owned by WEWS in Cleveland. Ohio House Republicans introduced a new bill Monday that physicians worry would […]