Posted on 07/02/2017 5:02:10 PM PDT by jazusamo
$10 million Reproductive Health Equity Act approved with no GOP votes, advances to state Senate
An Oregon bill requiring insurers to provide their customers with free abortions—including illegal immigrants—has advanced to the state Senate after winning approval Saturday in the state House with no Republican votes.
House Democrats pushed through the Reproductive Health Equity Act after a nearly two-hour debate over the bill, which would allocate $10.2 million for services related to contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, including vasectomies and abortions, in the 2017-19 budget period.
About $500,000 would be earmarked for the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program, for the estimated 22,873 women who would be eligible “except for their immigration status.”
“Affordable access to reproductive health care shouldn’t depend on who you are, where you live, or how much you earn,” tweeted Democratic state Rep. Julie Fahey after the vote.
Republicans tried but failed to block the measure with a motion to send it back to committee. The bill passed 33-23 as Democrats hurried to move H.B. 3391 before the end of the legislative session on July 10.
“Oregon is once again leading the way on health care!” said Oregon House Democrats in a statement after the vote.
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Ping!
Not free at all. Decent people would be forced to pay for it.
We are sinking so fast, my heart bleeds. I am frustrated with our state goverment. We need an Oregon electoral college to even things out between the counties.
The Ku Klux Klan endorses this action. After all, Planned Parenthood was established to promote racial purification, and statistics show that it is carrying out those goals.
... and reserve for themselves a special place in hell.
Sounds sooo dignified and noble. Now commence with the baby killing and stick it to the taxpayers for the cost. The road to hell is paved with good intentions bad democrats.
Bump!
“Oregon is once again leading the way on health care!” Yet the death penalty for hardened criminals in Oregon is long gone. Leading the way on health care is a strange way to classify murder but hey, who can understand leftists?
Must be something in the water out west, it’s making everyone nuts!!!
If abortion is healthcare, then whale killing is ocean care, strip mining is wilderness care, And clubbing and skinning makes for a healthier seal pup.
those looney tunes on the coast are the ones that cause all the bad things about Oregone...including having someone HAVE to pump your gas for you....
(*) the biggest friction however seems to be between illegal aliens and blacks, both fighting for the "preferred victims' group" designation from the Dem party, and the consequent patronage /affirmative action jobs.
Oregon Democrat DEATH PARTY ...a sick bunch of ass holes.
So, we’re not broke?
Unfortunately for some, judgement will come soon. Not just for Oregon, but for all of us. The spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah has overcome us. Many think that spirit was about homosexuality. It was not. It was about worshipping ourselves and foregoing justice for our own selfish desires. I have never felt so strongly that Messiah will come soon with Justice and Mercy in his sword. Isaiah 49:7 “Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.” And Isaiah 49:2 “And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;” all eyes will turn toward Jerusalem. The leaves are sprouting from the Fig Tree in Oregon and the whole world. Our redemption draws near...
Not the water, ‘cause I’m drinking that.
Yep. With this Oregon reinstitutes the death penalty but only for babies.
This country is toast.
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