New Jersey may expand infertility coverage to lesbians

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New Jersey may be expanding infertility coverage to lesbians following a federal lawsuit brought by a same-sex couple.

Though New Jersey law requires insurance companies cover expenses considered medically necessary as part of infertility treatment, it defines infertility in a way that excludes lesbian couples. Under state law, infertility is defined as the result of failure to conceive after a certain period of unprotected sex for women younger than 35 or after one year for women older than 35.

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