Okay, I realized that we turned back the clocks last weekend, but the Democrats just pushed the clock back on Women’s Rights last night with the “sweeping Health Bill” passing in the House allowing an amendment that restricts abortion access for subsidised insurance plans (like all of them). So I cannot purchase an insurance plan under this Health Bill if it is subsidised that will offer abortion coverage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/health/policy/08scene.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Have they lost their minds? We fought long and hard for Pro-Choice all these years and because Democrats now are moderate (representing areas where the pro-life groups are active), we get tossed aside for the “greater good?” A basic right is not available because of the shape of our skin and reproductive organs.
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/news/press-releases/2009/pr11072009_househcrbillstupak.html
National Abortion Rights Action League, NARAL, is not giving up. Their article says that women who opt for plans that are subsidised will not be able to purchase insurance that offers abortion coverage. Since most plans are subsidized, that means you can’t get an abortion – not on the list of what is covered. Eighty-five percent of the insurance companies now offer that in their coverage – it’s legal. So the amendment tells the insurance companies, you can have 85% of the business that we offer OR you can offer an abortion. Choice is really no choice. The amendment says that women could buy a “rider” on the insurance plan, but that option is already in use in several states, but no company offers the rider to paying customers. Which is RESTRICTION no matter how you look at it.
I wrote Nancy Pelosi at AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov and vented a tad. Okay, a lot.
I thought I only had to worry about small-minded people carrying placards with bloody fetuses on them. Now I realize that just because we rid ourselves of Bush, we can’t rest. We cannot look toward a future where choice for women is a right – we are under attack from our own party.
Palin and her death panel myth is nothing compared to Democrats who toss aside their base of support in such a casual manner. That amendment has to die.
Where’s my Abortion Rights placard? Just as I dug out my No War buttons and signs, now I have to go back and do this Pro-Choice all over again.
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