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Needle-Exchange Programs
The number of AIDS-related deaths is declining. But one number remains steady – more than 40,000 people a year become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Consequently, our country must use every means possible – including effective needle-exchange programs – to stop new HIV infections.
Will Fertility Services Be Covered by My Insurance?
My partner and I would like to begin a family. There are many different things for us to research, including artificial insemination. We decided to use the Cryobank in California; however, from what I have heard, our health insurance will cover the procedure only if a doctor determines it is "medically necessary." How do they determine what is and what isn’t medically necessary?
What Effect Will the California Domestic Partner Law Have?
Answered by Kim I. Mills, education director for the Human Rights Campaign and oversees HRC WorkNet.
Defense of Marriage Act Witness Testimonies: Gregory S. Coleman
“As things currently stand, given the outcomes and rationales in Romer and Lawrence, it is likely, though not inevitable, that DOMA itself and prohibitions on same-sex marriage more generally will be held to be unconstitutional in the relatively near future.”
Defense of Marriage Act Witness Testimonies: Maggie Gallagher
“Marriage is a key social institution, but it is also a fragile institution: with half or more of our children experiencing the suffering, poverty and deprivation of fatherlessness and fragmented families. This is a crisis that was of course not created by advocates of same-sex marriage.”