Posted on 01/09/2024 2:01:29 AM PST by Morgana
A new pro-abortion law took effect in Maine on January 1, preventing private health insurance companies in the state from carrying deductibles or co-pays for abortions.
LD 935, An Act to Remove Barriers to Abortion Coverage in Private Insurance, was signed by pro-abortion Gov. Janet Mills (D) over the summer along with numerous additional pro-abortion bills. It prohibits private insurers from imposing “deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other cost-sharing requirement” for any patient who undergoes an abortion.
Warning: Images below may be disturbing to readers.
Abortion is not health care
Maine’s law gives abortion priority above other “health care” — but logically, because abortion deliberately kills a human being, it cannot truly be defined as health care despite the propaganda of abortion advocates. Private insurers impose deductibles, co-pays, and coinsurance on families of children with health conditions, and for nearly everything else — but Maine is preventing those same companies from imposing these same types of costs on induced abortion, an entirely elective, life-ending procedure.
Induced abortion is the direct and intentional killing of preborn human beings. Abortion procedures involve depriving a baby of nutrients, suctioning the baby out in pieces, dismembering the baby, or forcing cardiac arrest on the baby. Other violent methods of killing preborn humans exist as well. Health care does not aim to kill. It aims to heal and save. Abortion does this:
PHOTO ON LINK (Baby Holly was dismembered by a D&E abortion in a Washington DC abortion facility. Photo courtesy of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.)
Most abortions are not committed for ‘medical emergencies’
The bill passed the Maine House 75-67 and the Senate 22-12. Rep. Matt Moonen, one of the bill’s sponsors, likened abortion to ’emergency’ care, claiming, “The reality is that few people have the savings to afford a medical emergency, and cost-sharing most severely affects those with the fewest financial resources.”
Induced abortion is not medically necessary, even if the pregnant mother faces a medical emergency. In that case, doctors would perform an emergency C-section or carry out a preterm delivery in order to save the mother. Neither of these procedures are abortions — even if the baby is too young to survive. An induced abortion is the intentional and direct killing of the child. Preterm delivery in an emergency to save the mother is also an attempt to save the child when possible.
Moonen is not forcing insurance companies to rescind copays or deductibles for emergency deliveries like C-sections — only for induced abortions in which the goal is to kill the child. Women who undergo lifesaving procedures will still have to pay.
If by “medical emergency,” Moonen is also referring to a prenatal diagnosis for a child, then his solution for a child diagnosed with a health condition is intentional death and he aims to ensure the parents don’t pay a copay to abort their imperfect child. Rather than mandate that insurers rescind copays and deductibles for actual treatments in the neonatal intensive care unit or for the child’s ongoing medical care, this law and those behind it force insurers to cover copays and deductibles only when the baby is killed.
Women who choose life will still have to pay copays and deductibles.
In addition, most abortions are not carried out during emergencies or for so-called medical reasons. Abortions are committed on healthy women and healthy babies even late into pregnancy in states where it is legal. In 2022, an undercover reporter went to the Washington Surgi-Clinic abortion business at 28 weeks pregnant, and requested an abortion. She and her baby were both healthy and her child was old enough to survive outside the womb. Legally, she would still have been allowed to abort. Under Maine’s new law, a circumstance like this would mean the insurance company would have to cover all of the costs.
The Dupont Clinic website advertises abortion after 26 weeks of pregnancy. “If you are 26 weeks or later into your pregnancy, we can still see you, regardless of your medical history, background, or fetal indications. We do not require any particular ‘reason’ to be seen here – if you would like to terminate your pregnancy, we support you in that decision,” the website states. (emphasis added)
Targeting specific children for abortion
Rep. Moonen also argued that underprivileged women might have to forgo paying rent to pay for an abortion, and therefore, the abortion should be free of cost for them — but in reality, this puts a target on the backs of the preborn children of disadvantaged women.
“For those that need access to abortion, those costs can mean a month’s rent or a car payment,” he said. And yet, the same could be said of people who need cancer treatment, treatment for an injury, emergency surgery for an appendectomy, or who require expensive prescriptions to ensure their survival.
Moonen added, “Scrambling to come up with the extra money for those out-of-pocket costs can cause delays in care, pushing a woman later into pregnancy and potentially further into economic distress. LD 935 will ensure that more Mainers do not struggle to access this most basic of care.”
Yet Maine isn’t helping individuals with “basic care.” Maine is paying to kill preborn human beings. Portraying the intentional killing of one’s preborn child as ‘the most basic of care’ is sheer propaganda. Induced abortion is the direct and intentional killing of an innocent and vulnerable human being as is made obvious in the photos below:
PHOTOS ON LINK
Second, incentivizing abortion for women — specifically for financially disadvantaged women — could be construed by some to be discriminatory behavior aimed at pushing women into abortions they don’t want, which is a form of coercion.
Pro-life advocate and Live Action news correspondent Christina Bennett explained in 2020:
[W]omen are coerced into having abortions by their parents, by their partners, by their employers, and by the abortion industry workers, staff, and doctors. And so when you make abortion free [of cost to the client], you’re adding to that encouragement. You’re encouraging abortion when you make it free because, just in general, that’s a sales tactic, making something free. If something is free, you’re going to consider it regardless of what it is.
If someone says, ‘Do you want this? It’s free.’ You’re going to think, ‘Do I want this?’ So, for women who are already vulnerable, already under pressure to abort, it becomes this enticement.
This is true for women facing pressure to abort for a variety of reasons, including financial concerns as well as women who may have received a prenatal diagnosis for their child and are feeling pressured to abort their previously wanted child.
Maine’s pro-abortion political officials seem laser-focused on ensuring more women have abortions. The state also enacted a law, which took effect in October 2023, that allows women to seek an abortion at any time during pregnancy for any reason. Now that LD 935 has taken effect, a woman who has private health insurance in Maine can have an abortion at any time for any reason right up to 40 weeks of pregnancy, at no cost to them.
Squirrely Donkocommunist Secy of State tries to ban trump from ballot is probably involved woth this too as Secy of States are involved with Corporations too
Maine was once not too long ago one of the more conservative of the NE states. What happened to it?
RCV and RCV-enabled voting machines
And the use of the above suggests that Maine is still conservative and is having their elections stolen by Deep State.
When the choice was Bellows or Collins, it is no surprise ME has gone to the socialists.
If I were guessing, older people died off or moved South to a warmer climate. Evil moved in.
My parents took a motorcycle tour through the N.E. and Nova Scotia 50 years ago and loved it. They would be disappointed now.
My husband and I took a tour out West 40 years ago. We loved it. I’m sure we would be disappointed now.
Whenever decent moves out or dies out, evil moves in.
It’s a shame. My parents said Maine is beautiful. They wanted to pull up stakes and move there.
Maine state government is forcing private insurance to provide abortion at no cost. They want their healthcare environment to more easily and affordably kill babies.
This ‘free’ service will raise cost of insurance and/or medical care. Call me crazy, but how about Maine state government work on reforms to help save and improve lives?
kill one baby, get the second murdered FREE!
It's funny that they present this narrative as not banning abortion for women who want to make that choice, when what they mean is that the rest of us, against our own choice, have to fund it.
But Maine has always been cold. That doesn’t explain how evil moved it, unless we are seeing a massive, corporate shift toward evil in this nation. I believe that’s the case.
Induced abortion is not medically necessary, even if the pregnant mother faces a medical emergency. In that case, doctors would perform an emergency C-section or carry out a preterm delivery in order to save the mother. Neither of these procedures are abortions — even if the baby is too young to survive. An induced abortion is the intentional and direct killing of the child. Preterm delivery in an emergency to save the mother is also an attempt to save the child when possible.
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That’s exactly right. There’s never a medically necessary reason to poison or burn a child to death in the womb then rip him to pieces to extract him.
Free abortion isn’t free. The cost will be imposed on all. And then there’s wrath of God.
I believe that too. It’s everywhere but some places more than others.
A lot of snowbirds move South. I think they are being replaced by the evil bunch of younger people.
The only thing that kept my parents from moving up there was the cold. My dad was Chattanooga born and we lived the first 13 years of my life in S. Florida because of my asthma. None of us would survive long in Maine. :-)
If it’s private insurance, they are still paying for it.
Rank Choice Voting in Maine only applies to federal offices; U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and President.
It does not apply to Governor, Maine Senate races of Maine House races.
The Portland area is in the First Congressional district; 20% of the land mass of the state. A very liberal area that calls the shots in this state.
That’s fine get it? It’s now up to the states-something we fought 50 years for.
Now the state of Maine gets to have their own internal discussion over the issue. More local. That means more intense. Time is now on our side but only if we’re smarter-too much to ask.
Linda Graham is the reason why.
“Health care” apparently includes dangerous untested vaxxes as well.
The leftists have taken previously innocent terms and weaponized them.
Kill for gain or shoot to maim, but we don’t need a reason
The Golden Goose is on the loose and never out of season
Blackened pride still burns inside this shell of bloody treason.
Here’s my gun for a barrel of fun for the love of living death.
The killer’s breed or the demon’s seed
The glamor, the fortune, the pain
Go to war again, blood is freedom’s stain
But don’t you pray for my soul anymore
2 minutes to midnight, the hands that threaten doom
2 minutes to midnight, to kill the unborn in the womb
The blind men shout let the creatures out, we’ll show the unbelievers
The napalm screams of human flames, of a prime time Belsen feast
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies
The killer’s breed or the demon’s seed
The glamor, the fortune, the pain
Go to war again, blood is freedom’s stain
But don’t you pray for my soul anymore
2 minutes to midnight, the hands that threaten doom
2 minutes to midnight, to kill the unborn in the womb
The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song
To the tune of starving millions, to make a better kind of gun
The killer’s breed or the demon’s seed
The glamor, the fortune, the pain
Go to war again, blood is freedom’s stain
But don’t you pray for my soul anymore
2 minutes to midnight, the hands that threaten doom
2 minutes to midnight, to kill the unborn in the womb
Midnight, midnight, it’s all night
Midnight, midnight, all night!
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