Posted on 06/28/2024 12:00:54 PM PDT by Morgana
CV NEWS FEED // The Delaware Senate has approved legislation requiring Medicaid and most private health insurance plans to cover abortion.
According to the Associated Press, Democratic senators passed the legislation on a party-line vote, though it still needs to be approved by Democratic Gov. John Carney.
The bill does include an exemption allowing churches and religious employers to seek a waiver from covering abortions, but other insurance providers must provide abortions without charging copays or applying deductibles.
The coverage would be limited to $750 per person per year.
The bill is one of many recent anti-life laws, as Delaware has already allowed physician assistants and nurse practitioners to both perform abortions and prescribe abortion pills, the AP shares. Delaware also protects out-of-state residents who come to the state for abortions.
Since the bill requires Delaware’s Medicaid to cover abortions, it will cost taxpayers about $500,000 a year, according to analysts’ estimation.
The AP states that Delaware will become the 11th state to mandate private health insurance to cover abortions, and the 18th to require that Medicaid does so.
The Senate has two other pro-abortion bills pending action. The first would require Delaware colleges and universities with health centers to offer abortion pills and contraception, and the second bill would demand “crisis pregnancy centers to provide public notice if they are not licensed as medical facilities and do not employ a licensed medical provider,” AP reports.
It’s Delaware. Works for them.
HOW many companies INCORPORATED in Delaware will go elsewhere???
Somebody should amend the bill to say that insurance must not cover breast cancer or premature deliveries that result from the abortions the legislature required insurance to cover; those expenses will be paid out-of-pocket by the legislators and governor who pass this law.
Wasn’t DE a Tory state in the Revolution?
Ah. Great idea.
Watch the lefties bitch when insurance premiums go up. Wait until mandatory coverage for gender transition.
Unfortunately, the DOBBS decision essentially allows Delaware to do this…
Low-income people can’t afford Dupont-cost health insurance.
People should have full choice as to what health care cost coverage they buy.
When it comes to saving my life, government has no right to stand in the way.
There might be a 14-day purchase opt-out period when coverage would not meet governmental specifications.
I don’t want to pay for baby murder. I don’t want to pay higher premiums because I don’t want to pay for baby murder.
PENAL CODE
TITLE 5. OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON
CHAPTER 19. CRIMINAL HOMICIDE
Sec. 19.01. TYPES OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE.
(a) A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence causes the death of an individual
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Sec. 19.06. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN CONDUCT. This chapter does not apply to the death of an unborn child if the conduct charged is:
(1) conduct committed by the mother of the unborn child;
(2) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent, if the death of the unborn child was the intended result of the procedure;
(3) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent as part of an assisted reproduction as defined by Section 160.102, Family Code; or
(4) the dispensation of a drug in accordance with law or administration of a drug prescribed in accordance with law.
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.19.htm
“No state shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.”
Amendment XIV, Section 1
“The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment.”
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
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