Your Aug. 14 editorial urging Gov. Edgar to veto the Family Building Act states that ”advocates make the questionable claim that infertility is a disease.” Questionable? My wife has had seven miscarriages over the past 10 years. She has tolerated physical pain. We both have endured emotional pain that I cannot begin to describe. Make no mistake about it. It`s a disease.
Your editorial is so callous. You write that ”state legislators succumbed to the emotional pressures of a special interest group and to their do-good sentimentality.” Why don`t you name the organization? It`s called RESOLVE. They have done extraordinary work in helping couples cope with infertility.
The new coverage would add no more than $1.50 per month to the insurance costs for everyone in the groups involved. You don`t refute this fact in your editorial, so why should Gov. Edgar veto it? Does this become part of the, as you call it, ”serious drag on corporate profitability and competitiveness”
? I don`t think so. I urge the governor to sign this bill.
