thefederalist.com
2026-10-26
Sodomy is not infertility. But money and ideology encourage pretending otherwise.
For example, a recent piece in the New England Journal of Medicine complained that the World Health Organization's guidelines on infertility aren't inclusive enough because they "pertain only to heterosexual couples" rather than also encompassing "LGBTQ+ people, as well as single people." The authors griped that the WHO's "formal definition of infertility continues to exclude same-sex couples and to rely on intercourse-based framing." Which is to say, infertility is defined as, well, infertility -- when a man and a woman are failing to conceive via intercourse -- without pretending that infertility includes the inability of same-sex couples to reproduce, an incapacity that is baked into the reproduction complementarity of the human species.
Same-sex marriage presumes that men and women are interchangeable, except as a matter of subjective sexual preference. This falsehood is refuted by the reality of reproduction, which is part of why article's authors want to redefine infertility as the need for "donor gametes or embryos ... for both single people and those with a partner."