This is just a sneaky way to withhold money to hospitals by using some kind "discrimination" ruse and chip away at reproductive rights for women.
It also tells us what the "pro-life" outfits are really up to, and that's to withhold ALL birth control from women because they believe women aren't good for anything except getting married and having babies, a belief that dies hard in this culture:
Mary Jane Gallagher, president of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, which represents providers, said, “The proposed definition of abortion is so broad that it would cover many types of birth control, including oral contraceptives and emergency contraception.”
“We worry that under the proposal, contraceptive services would become less available to low-income and uninsured women,” Ms. Gallagher said.
That's the aim of the proposal: Chip away at women's reproductive rights by first going after the most vulnerable.
"Conscience clause" nonsense laws are already legal, but they have to do with doctors and other medical personnel who cannot be required to perform abortions. But those of us who have followed the abortion wars for the past 40 years knew this was coming. First abortion, then contraception.
Reproductive rights are absolutely essential for women to have any kind of equality in this society.
(HT: Blue Lyon)
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