OPINION: Charita Goshay: In rush to outlaw abortion, mothers being ignored
House Bill 182, sponsored by state Rep.
It also would outlaw existing policy that allows women to pay for separate insurance riders that cover abortion services.
The bill also would prohibit private insurance from paying for any form of birth control that could prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus, such as birth control pills and IUDs.
Becker told reporters the bill doesn't target birth control, per se, except in the case of abortifacients, and that perhaps pharmaceutical companies would be willing to reformulate their products so they wouldn't be classified as such.
The same companies that operate with impunity, whether they're flooding communities with opioids or jacking the cost of insulin by 400 percent? Sure, they'll listen.
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The bill also contains a measure requiring the re-insertion of embryos from tubal, or ectopic, pregnancies into the uterus. No medical technology exists to "replant" ectopic embryos, however, so apparently some wizardry will be involved.
Also, any physician seeking reimbursement for performing such an abortion would have to certify it was a therapeutic procedure.
Supporters of House Bill 182 say its purpose is to keep women safe, but it completely sidesteps the issue of maternal mortality.
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One of the biggest factors is lack of access to health care. Some states are taking advantage of a loophole in the Affordable Care Act, which requires Medicaid coverage for low-income women while they're pregnant but not after birth. So, 60 days after they deliver, new mothers can be dropped from coverage.
It frequently is cited that 1 in 3 abortions involve a black woman. But black women also are four times more likely to die from childbirth than whites. State Reps.
Only one state is reversing the trend of maternal mortality:
In 2010,
House Bill 235, a law to make the sugar cookie
Reach Charita at 330-580-8313.
On Twitter: @cgoshayREP
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