Accessing Reproductive Technologies: Invisible Barriers, Indelible Harms

[...] reproductive services may be limited based on a patient's marital status or sexual orientation.\n234 Unlike the eugenic laws at issue before the Supreme Court in Skinner v. Oklahoma or Buck v. Bell, today's version of reproductive deprivation is a patchwork of mostly informal policies quietly practiced by insurance companies, ART providers, and select lawmakers whose activities threaten to institutionalize discrimination against nontraditional parents. Ameliorative measures, including broader health insurance coverage for fertility treatment, and antidiscrimination statutes tailor-made to address discriminatory ART denials, offer the prospect of increased access and reduced discrimination in the provision of ART services.