Reproductive Coverage in Health Care Reform
Though the passage of the House health care reform bill brought us one step closer to health reform that works for women, anti-choice Members of Congress dealt a huge blow to women’s reproductive health coverage at the last minute by including the anti-choice Stupak-Pitts amendment in health care legislation. If this amendment becomes law, it will, in effect, prohibit women from using their own personal, private funds to purchase an insurance plan that includes abortion coverage in the new health insurance exchanges—taking away essential coverage that most insurance plans provide today.
Health Reform That Works for Women Includes Abortion Care
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Womenstake: Blog Post on Reproductive Rights in Health Care Reform
- Putting Women Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Accept a System That Insures More People, Lose Your Reproductive Rights (November 17, 2009)
- Abortion Coverage Matters: The High-Stakes in the Fight Over the Stupak Amendment (November 16, 2009)
- Abortion and Health Care Reform: How The House Bill Forces Women to Accept Less Coverage Than They Already Have (November 10, 2009)
- Abortion in health reform - how did your Representative vote? (November 9, 2009)
- A Major Advancement in Health Care Reform - Next Step Must Meet Women's Reproductive Health Care Needs (November 8, 2009)
- Boehner Substitute Still Treats Women Like a Pre-existing Condition (November 4, 2009)
- Abortion Coverage Matters: The High-Stakes in the Fight Over the Stupak Amendment (November 16, 2009)
- Abortion and Health Care Reform: How The House Bill Forces Women to Accept Less Coverage Than They Already Have (November 10, 2009)
- Hatch Amendments Defeated, But Women's Health Still Hanging in the Balance (October 1, 2009)
- Come On, Abstinence-Only Programs Shouldn't Have to Prove They're Effective to Get Funding (September 30, 2009)
- Keeping Health Care Decisions in Our Hands (September 11, 2009)
- Stop Using Reproductive Rights as an Excuse to Block Health Reform (September 4, 2009)
Support for Reproductive Coverage in Health Care Reform