House raises taxes on people with health insurance, institutes death penalty for f*cking
The House just passed HR3, which was misnamed the No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act. In reality, the law has nothing to do with taxpayer funding. What it does is revokes the tax credit or deduction for health care for any individual or employer who purchases private insurance that covers abortion. It also has an amendment allowing emergency rooms to turn away women who need life-saving care that could endanger the pregnancy or will require a termination
Great post at Pandagon including video of Pelosi explaining what this bill entails. For one thing, this:
The redefinition of rape to exclude raped teenage girls that was included in the bill and then taken out and then snuck back in has gotten most of the attention. But there are two other aspects of HR3 that are even more frightening. This is a radical piece of legislation, folks.
1) Lots more dead women. The legislators who wrote HR3 really, really like the idea of pregnant women paying for fucking with their lives. The bill attacks the lives of pregnant women in two major ways. First of all, the bill will force all insurance companies in the country to drop abortion coverage. For women getting first trimester abortions of choice, this will be a burden, but since this is more of an attack on women who already have insurance, they’re likely to be in a slightly better financial situation than the women who get screwed daily by the Hyde Amendment, and therefore more likely to be able to get the $500 together for an abortion.
Not so for women who are 20 weeks along, develop eclampsia or cancer, and need an abortion or they’ll die. That procedure can costs thousands of dollars, well out of the reach of many women who need it. So they’d be screwed.
More than that, you have the amendment to the bill that would allow hospitals to turn away women who need emergency terminations. If you have an ectopic pregnancy, for instance, they would be able to turn you away. Some times women who miscarry don’t miscarry all the way, and they need to get D&Cs at the hospital in order not to die of blood poisoning. Hospitals would now be able to turn them away.
Great post with more at link. Check it out.