Silicon Valley was once a hotbed of innovation in California. Today, the most innovative new inventions come from Sacramento.

The State Legislature is also a pioneer of a new kind of socialism, biosocialism. (Related: John Stossel: No, socialism won’t save the planet)

Old industrial socialism meant advocating control over the means of production. In biological socialism, the government controls the means of reproduction.

Enter SB729. Specification It redefines fertility and infertility in the Golden State.

In the past, infertility was a medical condition. State Senator Caroline Menzivar’s bill has a “status” that applies to same-sex couples and singles. And the law offers remedies.

SB 729 mandates employer-sponsored insurance plans to cover fertility treatment for people who actually have the potential to conceive a child if the only method of fertility treatment that is naturally conducive is used. I’m here.

A family once started with a mother and a father. In the wonderful new world of our blue states, you can start with legal tender and insurance companies.

California’s proposed bill would make employers—and ultimately everyone else—financially responsible for IVF treatment and surrogacy options for same-sex couples and singles. Biological socialism, like traditional socialism, aims to level the playing field. In this case, the conditions that apply to the natural family and the artificially entrusted family.

Washington Free Beacon Quote The website of Men Have Babies, an advocacy group defending the California bill and similar efforts in New York, New Jersey, Maine, and elsewhere:

“The anguish and longing felt by same-sex couples and singles due to their inability to reproduce without medical intervention is comparable to the anguish of heterosexual couples who suffer from ‘medical infertility’.”

Unreasonable or not, the same reasoning applies to single people. They, too, may suffer from circumstances beyond their control—social rather than medical circumstances that prevent them from producing biological offspring.

If equality is the goal, the right to reproduction must be as universal as the right to work, housing and health care.

Indeed, employers and insurance companies worry about the price of bills like SB 729. In vitro fertilization and surrogacy are expensive procedures, and Menzivar wants to socialize the costs.

Their effectiveness will not only make these treatments available to those who cannot afford them, but more broadly, same-sex couples and singles who can already afford them will also be able to access them. subsidies will be given. Biosocialism is a pro-family policy that mirrors the prenatal policies favored by Republicans like Mitt Romney.

The difference is that Progressives have a broader definition of family and therefore have more potential customers and voters.

Nothing prevents Democrats from overtaking Republicans on family policy proposals. If Republicans want to pay people to have children, Democrats will pay more kinds of people more money.

Republicans cannot compete unless they abandon social conservatism along with fiscal conservatism.

The old conservative model relied on self-responsibility. Not the mythical all-for-me individualism, but a high degree of financial self-responsibility at all levels of society.

Such self-responsibility in the family and community emphasizes involvement in local affairs (of religious and social types, as well as local governments) and independence from centralized power and planning. Encouraged an ethic of self-government.

This does not mean that America had a laissez-faire economy. But that meant that socialist efforts would always meet resistance, not just from the wealthy.

The new biological socialism doesn’t just claim that the economic situation is unfair. He argues that nature itself is discriminatory and must be remedied.

This requires a comprehensive management system, including fertility price control. Employers and religious conservatives clearly oppose bills like SB 729 economically and morally, but there are also underlying political problems.

As time goes on and more and more families exist thanks to such laws, the very concept of family will cease to be a matter of nature or ancient custom.

The most basic social unit of self-responsibility in American life, the unit that forms the very personality of the individual, becomes subordinate to political collective responsibility.

It is the government that forms society, not the other way around.

Whether insurance covers misfortune is another matter.

But when misfortune is truly out of our control, i.e. when biologically fertile people do not engage in reproductive sex, mandatory insurance becomes a means of social engineering to redistribute money and responsibility alike. Become.

Self-governing people are born out of self-government, especially the family. And families are born out of fertility.

If California replaces the biological laws of fertility with its own political priorities, the family will be removed from the realm of convention and nature over which no one can control, socializing the very building blocks of society. would be

Karl Marx didn’t think big enough. If you can seize the factories that produce men and women, why should you seize anything else?

Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. For more information on Daniel McCarthy, please visit www.creators.com.

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