Posted on 07/10/2015 8:39:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), along with about 70 other House Democrats, introduced a bill in Congress on Wednesday that would provide taxpayer-funded abortion coverage to all women who are covered by an insurance plan through the federal government—including federal workers, military members, women incarcerated in federal prisons, and low-income women covered by Medicaid.
The Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Coverage Act, or EACH Woman Act, states that “The Federal Government shall (1) ensure coverage for abortion care in public health insurance programs, including Medicaid, Medicare and the Children’s Health Insurance Program” and “in its role as an employer or health plan sponsor, ensure coverage for abortion care for participants and beneficiaries.”
The bill also mandates that all health care facilities that are contracted by the government provide abortion services.
Additionally, the bill seeks to impose a requirement that state and local governments “shall not prohibit, restrict or otherwise inhibit insurance coverage of abortion care by private health plans.” …
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May bill ayers make you one of his special gifts babs.
It’s lucky that the mothers of these 70 libtards did not have “free” abortion rights.
If I were a Congressman, I’d ask each and every one of them if I got the floor, to tell me how many mammogram machines Planned Parenthood owns or operates.
Not surprising, since the government has essentially destroyed religious freedom.
70 people who have absolutely no business running for, or holding public office of any kind. They are preeminently disqualified from serving a society intent on self-government. They ought to be summarily stripped of authority and sent packing.
Shameful!
Accessories to murder.
You can expect Bonehead to make sure it gets a vote too
If speaker bonehead lets it get to the floor, it will be another bonehead move.
Barbara Lee is an "award winning" death-penalty opponent.
Yet she demands taxpayer funding for baby-killers.
ping
Why do leftists have to have these cute titles to their legislation?
It’s the Euphemism Treadmill. All totalitarian statists do this to the language.
Since this has zero chance passing in House, there is another nefarious reason to introduce this legislation...
Here’s to you, liar Stupack. The Democratic-Socialist party has been an enemy of our constitutional republic for years and yes, Stupak, you had to know.
Just getting ready for the 2016 election!
I am to the point of flexing some second amendment rights. We have to clean house.
Right.
Rebellious, unruly, immature teens push against fences and rules until either they break or their parent kicks their ass.
These people are intellectually adolescent perps, and it’s time to treat them as such.
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