Word: medicaid
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News coverage of the pending abortion rights bill in Congress was heavy last week. Watching TV the other night, I was struck by a phrase used in a network report: "forcible rape." The report stated that Democrats were pushing hard for a bill guaranteeing Medicaid funding for abortions for victims of rape and incest, while Republicans were seeking a compromise to which the Democrats would not concede--abortions only for "forcible rape...
...going to decide what's "psychological" or "forcible" and what's not? The Secretary of State? Congress? The news media? The courts? Are women going to have to go to court to "prove" they've been victims of "psychological torture" or "forcible rape" in order to get Medicaid funding for abortions, or in the worst scenario, in order to get abortions...
...there's a constitutional right to abortion, it is meaningless without Medicaid funding," Yard said...
...Medicaid financing for poor women's abortions has been restricted in one way or another since...
Just a year ago, the Senate caved to the restrictive House position on Medicaid abortion financing by a vote...