Republican Governor Vetoes Bill To Provide Fertility Treatments To Unmarried Couples

Boy, I’ll just bet the left will be howling mad over this one:

Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri has vetoed a bill requiring health insurers to cover infertility treatments for unmarried people, saying they shouldn’t be forced to subsidize out-of-wedlock births.

The Republican governor, who opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions, warned that eliminating the marriage restriction would also drive up health care costs.

“As a matter of public policy, the state should be encouraging the birth of children to two-parent families, not the reverse,” he said in a written statement Thursday announcing his Wednesday veto.

You just know that there would be a case arise out of this where someone would make use of this program, get pregnant, her and her partner have a falling out, and the next thing you know, she’s at an abortion clinic to get rid of it.

I guess to Democrats, that’s a win-win situation, though…especially if they can get her to repeat it over and over again.

Update: Just had an even “better” thought: they break up before she actually gets pregnant and she then donates her fertilized embryo(s) to a stem cell research laboratory. Ooooh!

(Cross-posted to Iowa Voice.)