Since this is a municipal election year and the election actually matters, I've once again been thinking a lot about politics.
My biggest concern is that there seems to be what I call "government creep". I think it has been happening all my life. Step by step, government gets more involved in your life. Its small steps at a time, but it seems to happen consistently.
While I feel very sympathetic to couples who can not conceive normally, this proposal is the kind of thing that takes socialism wayyyy too far. I'm all for public health care (after all, freedom is important, and if you don't have access to basic affordable health care regardless of income, you are not really free)
If you break your arm, I support a society that will treat you out of the public purse. But advanced and expensive treatments ultimately take away funds from the more important things... like cancer research.
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