Posted on 02/12/2020 9:49:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to withhold healthcare funds from California unless it meets a deadline this month to stop requiring health insurance plans to cover elective abortions.
State officials have vowed to fight the move.
On Jan. 24, the HHS Office of Civil Rights notified California that state mandates requiring universal abortion coverage violate federal conscience statutes and that it has 30 days to comply with the law.
The notice stemmed from two complaints alleging California engaged in unlawful discrimination when in 2014, the state's Department of Managed Health Care said health plan issuers must offer coverage for elective abortion. HHS says the requirement violates the Weldon Amendment, which bars federal programs and agencies and state and local governments from receiving certain funds if they discriminate against healthcare entities that do not provide, pay for, provide coverage of or refer for abortions.
"California has deprived over 28,000 people of plans that did not cover elective abortion, but now must cover abortion," the Office of Civil Rights said in a news release.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a news release that the Trump administration is making baseless allegations of violations and that President Donald Trump "is using the official levers of government to advance his political agenda."
"In California, we will continue to protect our families' access to healthcare, including women's constitutional right to abortion," the release says. "Nothing changes."
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
The Left: abortion (baby killing) is a hill they will fight for.
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