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The AFA asks Honda to change its discriminatory practices.
August 19, 2008 - Tuesday
Posted by Lisa
Today, The AFA sent out a press release regarding Honda Manufacturing of Alabama. The upshot is that Honda has issued a request to its health insurance provider, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, asking that they specifically “...exclude domestic partners (same-sex partners) from Assisted Reproductive Technology benefits including diagnostic services related to fertility/infertility that have a fertility or infertility diagnosis.”
As I said in a letter to our membership today:
“ We are dismayed that Honda Manufacturing of Alabama would take a stance that can only be described as discriminatory and anti-family, denying gay and lesbian couples ART benefits that they otherwise would have been able to access. As we said when we reached out to Honda nearly a month ago, asking for a meeting to discuss their policy, we stand ready to work with them to ensure fair and equal treatment for all their employees who desire to create a family. Honda has yet to respond to our requests.”
There is an all-out assault on reproductive freedom in this country, from the Bush administration attempting to classify certain types of contraception as abortion, to the legislature in Colorado proposing an amendment to the state constitution that would legally define personhood beginning at the moment of conception, to individual companies denying ART benefits on the basis of sexual orientation. We stand together, or we don’t stand at all. It’s that simple.
We need your help: take action by writing a letter or calling Honda. Read the press release and forward it to everyone you know. Make a donation to help support our work.
Thank you,
Ken Mosesian
Acting Executive Director
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