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Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 10:42 PM Feb 2016

Has Bernie's single payer health care plan explained how it would pay for women's re-productive...

healthcare? Will contraceptives be covered? Will abortions? What medicine(s) would be considered contraceptives? Is he going to end the Hyde amendment?

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Has Bernie's single payer health care plan explained how it would pay for women's re-productive... (Original Post) Yavin4 Feb 2016 OP
Unless it also kills the Hyde Amendment, it will end abortion in America jmowreader Feb 2016 #1
I thought about that too romana Feb 2016 #2

romana

(765 posts)
2. I thought about that too
Tue Feb 16, 2016, 12:15 AM
Feb 2016

With the Hyde amendment yep, makes abortion illegal for any person on the plan, and that would presumably be a lot of women. Also expect the right to demand something like that in the program, too, to make sure. It's a path for restricting access to abortion and other things, IMO. I'd like to hear Sanders explicitly address that and convince me that wouldn't happen and that reproductive rights, including abortion and contraception, will be protected under his plan.

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