The news has been known these days, but a few months ago that a lesbian couple has brought the assisted reproduction law before the courts, the reason, discrimination based on sexual orientation.
I think that most of us consider the right to be a mother something solid, something unalterable, something that should not only be protected, but guaranteed, at least as far as the media is concerned, then the nature of each woman will decide , but that is another subject. The mission of a society should be to facilitate the exercise of that right with the means at our disposal and you see, it seems that The Ministry of Health has its own objections.
The facts and complaint
María and Laura (fictitious names) are a lesbian couple who decide to undergo a fertility treatment by Social Security. Maria is about to receive the second cycle of treatment when they receive the devastating news: The address of the Center where the treatment was being carried out, Jiménez Díaz de Madrid Foundation He tells them that the treatment is going to be suspended and she is excluded from it. For what reason? Because they had applied the new Assisted Reproduction Law of the Minister Ana Mato, whereby women without a male partner are excluded from access to assisted reproduction. That is, for the state if you do not have a male partner, you do not have the right to have the state finance a fertility treatment.
The couple decided to report the case in January 2015 before the courts, at the hands of the NGO Womens Link for discrimination based on sexual orientation as well as geographical mobility, since in other communities such as the Basque Country or Andalusia free access to these is maintained techniques for lesbians.
Last Monday the hearing took place and the sentence is expected to arrive in 10 or 15 days and although it is expected to be a long trial, they are not at all discouraged and claim that they will arrive where necessary.
It should be clarified that months after filing the complaint, the Jiménez Díaz Foundation sent them another letter informing them that the treatment would be resumed and that Maria was again admitted to the process. However, they decided to continue the fight for their right and the rest of lesbians to be mothers.
A law crossed out of ideology by homosexual groups
This new law has been highly criticized by different sectors as it denies access to a medical treatment to a part of the female population for the mere fact of not having a male partner. It imposes a certain type of family, that called "traditional family" turning a blind eye to a whole range of different families and homes perfectly valid for the education and upbringing of a child.
However, I must clarify that the law does not prohibit access to private fertility treatments to women without a male partner but only to the financing of these by social security because, according to the law, to access a funded treatment, it is required to have previously had ** "sexual intercourse with vaginal intercourse without contraceptive methods" ** without achieving pregnancy during "a minimum of 12 months".
Someone should explain to the Ministry of Health that becoming pregnant through vaginal intercourse to women without partners or lesbians is "something unlikely", unless it is created in miracles or too much cinema is seen for adults.
Conclusion: as always, if you have money for you the laws were not made.
I only hope that one day a child's weight will weigh much more on the type of family on which it is sustained.
