Early last week, the constitutional court ruled that a ban on IVF treatment for single women and women in same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. With this, the top court resolved the ur-cause of the gender and family inequality that has plagued Muddy Hollows since 2001.
Back then, the last Drnovšek government tried to enact equal access to IVF for women regardless of their marital status. The move was thought of as a simple and logical expansion of a well-established right. But it turned out to be the spark that lit the fire of a misogynist and (soon thereafter) homophobic culture war that lasted for the next quarter of a century.
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