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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Revives Efforts To Let Employers Deny Birth Control To Women
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/07/18/538441/republican-bill-deny-birth-control/
GOP Revives Efforts To Let Employers Deny Birth Control To Women
By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Jul 18, 2012 at 10:10 am
In House Republicans latest attack on women, Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) released a labor, health, and education spending bill on Tuesday that would allow employers to deny contraception coverage for moral reasons.
And the bill goes further. It would stop Planned Parenthood clinics from receiving federal funding until the health organization certifies that it no longer offers abortions, despite the fact that Planned Parenthood does not use federal funds on abortion services, and it attempts to halt Obamacare funding:
The legislation also states that none of its funds can be used to carry out the Title X family planning program or be used to implement, administer, enforce, or further the provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
The bill scraps the provision in Obamacare that requires insurance plans to cover birth control and other preventative health services, allowing any issuer or sponsor of a group health insurance plan to refuse to cover any health care service on the basis of religious beliefs or moral convictions. It also increases restrictions on educating abortion physicians beyond current law and allocates $20 million for competitive grants to provide abstinence education to adolescents.
The bill scraps the provision in Obamacare that requires insurance plans to cover birth control and other preventative health services, allowing any issuer or sponsor of a group health insurance plan to refuse to cover any health care service on the basis of religious beliefs or moral convictions. It also increases restrictions on educating abortion physicians beyond current law and allocates $20 million for competitive grants to provide abstinence education to adolescents.
House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) said the bill reflects our strong commitment to reduce over-regulation and unnecessary, ineffective spending that feeds the nations deficits and hampers economic growth. It is scheduled to be marked up in Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor and Health this morning, but it is unlikely to become law. House Democratic aides told the Huffington Post that Republicans will likely use the massive cuts to womens health programs as a starting point in budget negotiations.
But as Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards put it, the Republican-backed budget proposal is badly out of touch with the needs of American women and families because it eliminates a vital family planning program and would harm womens health services.
House Republicans have already pushed a controversial ban on sex-selective abortions, and the Senate stopped Republican Sen. Roy Blunts (MO) amendment that would have empowered employers to deny coverage of health services to their employees on the basis of personal moral objections. And at the state level, Republican-dominated states have enacted 39 abortion restrictions so far this year. Rehbergs budget proposal is only the continuation in an ongoing war on reproductive health.
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GOP Revives Efforts To Let Employers Deny Birth Control To Women (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2012
OP
Patiod
(11,816 posts)1. Why the hell are we getting health care from employers anyway?
I know how it started - you couldn't raise wages back in the day, so employers had to offer benefits in lieu of salary.
But isn't it time we decoupled health insurance from full time employment? It's one of the reasons so many companies won't hire full time workers.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)3. This is America...common sense and logic do not apply
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)2. ...because hating on women is less damaging than Mitt's tax returns.