Texas governor signs controversial "rape insurance" abortion coverage into law

[Miles Archer]

Texas governor signs controversial ‘rape insurance’ abortion coverage into law



https://thinkprogress.org/texas-abortion-insurance-abbott-dd95bb943be3/

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill Tuesday afternoon, approved by the Senate over the weekend, that would prohibit all insurance companies from covering non-life threatening abortion care in standard health plans. Women, trans, and non-binary people will need to pay an additional insurance premium if they want their health plan to cover abortions performed outside medical emergencies; there will be no exceptions for instances of rape or incest. Opponents of the bill are calling it “rape insurance.”

Texas insurers will no longer include abortion in general health insurance plans — even in cases like rape, incest, or fetuses with fatal medical conditions. Abbott signed the bill with just one day left in the special session in the Texas legislature, which has been trying to pass a variety of draconian legislation over the past month.

Texas is not the first state to begin restricting insurance coverage of abortion, and it likely won’t be the last. States began ramping up restrictions in the private marketplace in 2010, when then-President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. This legislative session, local legislators introduced 431 provisions that would restrict access to abortion services. (According to Guttmacher Institute, the number of abortion restrictions introduced is about on par with past years.)

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. F I L T H

[tenderfoot]

2. Sharia Law Texas style

eom

[Glorfindel]

3. Three grinning, smirking faces of absolute evil

Their reward awaits them.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. These men are the face of obscenity.

[Doreen]

5. There must be some poor woman

he wants to rape now that it is more legal to rape women. You know that is where this is headed. If this keeps going this way rape and abuse of females of ANY age will be legal.

[hurl]

6. Need Texas women to step up

I'm a 4th generation Texan who had hope that Wendy Davis would mark a new path for Texas politics. However, it turns out that Texas women favored governor Abbott over Wendy Davis, despite the fact that he was VERY clear about coming after their bodily autonomy. I don't know what we can do about that.

Until enough Texas women decide their bodily autonomy is important enough to vote, we will continue to see stories like this, and my vote will continue to not matter.

[haele]

10. "Christian" married women don't think they'll get raped.

They also don't think their daughters might get raped, nor do they care enough to research their own family histories to get clue one on the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in their genetics.

If it doesn't affect them other than feeling good about voting for troglodytes on the promise of "saving innocent babies" - for a lifetime of poverty or abuse, that is - they're perfectly okay.

Of course, if they might ever be in a position where there's an unexpected pregnancy with traumatic complications, they'll just play the broodmare and go through the pregnancy, and risk death, sterilization, or at the very least, put up with 7 - 8 months of victimhood before they put that inconvenient "flesh of their flesh" up for adoption at some "nice church orphanage" that might or might not sell kids out for lives of servitude.

It doesn't cross their minds that abortion is a legitimate medical procedure.

Haele

[sinkingfeeling]

7. All women should immediately leave Texas.

[haele]

8. And the lawsuits have probably already been filed.

Assholes smiling at killing and subjecting women.

Haele

[Luciferous]

9. My husband is originally from Texas and we discussed moving there to be closer to his

family but I think with our next move I'm putting my foot down and demanding a more liberal location!

[bronxiteforever]

11. Kick for visibility of this evil