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is a pre-recorded program. The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, signed a bill that requires

large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization.

Now, this is my wheelhouse.

And I have been involved in vitro fertilization in my world of surrogacy since the early 80s.

And IVF was so brand new.

I mean, I remember the first test two baby, and that was 1978. And two years later, I'm jumping into this. And here was the problem, and it's always

been a problem, is that insurance companies never thought infertility was a medical issue.

It wasn't a sickness.

It wasn't a disease.

It wasn't a syndrome of any kind.

So anything you did with in vitro fertilization was voluntary and it was, you were on your own Massachusetts was the first

state that said oh no no you got to cover IVF and that's acceptance that there is something

medically wrong if someone is infertile in other words it is a disease and it has to be treated

and insurance companies have to cover it.

And insurance companies have said no, no, no, no for years.

Republicans are certainly not big fans of IVF.

And that goes right into the world of abortion and when a person, a person. And keep in mind,

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