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Imagine you’re a veteran who was critically wounded while serving your country. You’ve returned home, struggled through rehab, and now, finally, you’re ready to get on with your life and start a family. Your injury has made it difficult to conceive the old-fashioned way, so you turn to in vitro fertilization—only to discover that the Department of Veterans Affairs doesn’t cover the treatment. In fact, it has explicitly banned coverage for almost a quarter-century.
This has been the plight of too many veterans and their families, as service members returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with injuries to their spinal cords and pelvic areas—and found that without coverage for IVF, they couldn’t afford to have desperately wanted children.
This week, however, it looked like these veterans were finally going to catch a break.
This past February, Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, introduced The Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act of 2015, which would have ended the 23-year ban. Since then, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had been working together behind closed doors to come to a...