Another Viagra Suit Takes Flight

According to a report from Reuters, the airline’s medical plan allegedly covers Viagra for its male employees, but forces female employees to pay for their own birth control pills, pap smears and infertility treatments.

American Airlines, insisting that its health overage is gender neutral, plans to vigorously contest the suit, according to the report.

The suit charges that in 1999 Martina Alexander received a letter from her employer informing her that her health plan was designed to cover only expenses that were deemed medically necessary to sustain life, and therefore would not cover her infertility treatments.

Her lawyers, commenting on the case, remarked, “To our knowledge no man has ever died because he couldn’t get an erection.”