Daily Kos outlines with regret that states are moving ahead and opting out of abortion in upcoming exchanges in advance. What this does is ensure that tax payers are not being forced to pay for abortion in exchanges that are coming as a result of the new health care reform. Abortion supporters are trying to pretend that this will deny women abortion....they know better...as Rep. Matthew Hill stated, if a woman wants an abortion her choices are to pay for it with private funds or a private insurance plan that provides for abortion coverage.
Repro-Briefs: States Banning Coverage for Abortion Care
by RH Reality Check
Fri Apr 16, 2010 at 06:58:29 AM PDT
We wanted reform. Instead, we got a loophole that may take away abortion
coverage all together as states move to ban insurance coverage of abortion
care.
Written by Robin Marty for RHRealityCheck.org - News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
Written by Robin Marty for RHRealityCheck.org - News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
- RH Reality Check's diary :: ::
A funny thing happened on the way to healthcare reform. Not only did a
woman's right to choose get thrown under the bus in an effort to woo anti-choice
democrats to vote yay, but a funny
little loophole showed up in the final bill.
[A]bortion opponents are not satisfied with the restrictions on abortion already in the measure, particularly those on abortion coverage in private plans that will be sold in the new marketplaces known as health "exchanges." So they are pushing one particular aspect of the new law. It lets states ban all abortion coverage in the exchanges.It happened more quickly than we could have imagined.
Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, said her group wasted no time drawing up a model state law to that effect. They sent it out the day after Congress approved the health bill.
"It was a part of the legislation that states could opt out, and so we had a heads-up that this would be a window for us," she said. "So we moved right in to make sure that we could equip states with the tools that they need to have the most effective opt-out possible."
