Democrats: Texas GOP wants to make women buy rape insurance to cover abortions
Source: Texas Tribune
TEXAS TRIBUNE
09 AUG 2017 AT 09:30 ET
Texas women would have to pay a separate health insurance premium to get coverage for non-emergency abortions what an opponent dubbed rape insurance under a bill given early approval by the Texas House on Tuesday.
House Bill 214 requires women to pay an additional insurance premium if they want their health plan to cover abortions performed outside of medical emergencies. It does not contain exceptions for instances of fetal abnormalities, rape or incest.
State Rep. John Smithee, R- Amarillo, who is the lead author of the bill, said opponents of abortion should not have to subsidize the procedure through their insurance plans.
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House Democrats fought the proposal in a series of amendments, attempting to add exceptions for severe fetal abnormalities, ectopic pregnancies, rape, incest and the mental health of the mother. They also tried to remove a provision in the bill that prevented insurance companies from offering savings on premiums for the supplemental plan covering abortion and add language that would put any of those savings into an account to fund rape kit testing.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/democrats-texas-gop-wants-to-make-women-buy-rape-insurance-to-cover-abortions/
State Rep. John Smithee
SHRED
(28,136 posts)That's what it is.
no_hypocrisy
(46,270 posts)emergency", I don't know what is.
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)would have to go through in order to "prove" she was raped in order to collect her insurance claim.
This is just, just, just BEYOND BELIEF. I can't believe the complete and utter idiocy and hate that this bill contains.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)Well Ms. Smith exactly WHAT were you wearing the day you "claim" you were raped?? A dress? Then you were asking for it.
MissKat
(218 posts)Men should have to pay for "Sperm Release Waste". So that every time they release sperm and an egg is NOT fertilized all those little swimmers were totally wasted, right? They swam for naught.
Poor little guys. Brought forward only to die.
Maybe men should have to collect ejected sperm and give them a funeral.
I'm watching "Handmaid's Tale" and my tolerance is on a thin edge right now. We have the remnants of the Puritans telling 45 that God brought him forth to lead us.
And Mike and his Dominionists are panting on the sidelines. Christians-- 2,000 years of "Any day now!" Lord, protect me from your followers.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)My tolerance for ignorant "domination" has reached an end point. These damned insecure, spineless, weak brained GOP males (and any across the aisle counterpart) are an acute malignant stain on their gender.
It is all about control. Not religious purity, not morality, not pro-life, not compassion in any way for the unborn.
They are scared-assed and cowards.
They want to subjugate, penalize and humiliate females who dare to be smart, strong and independently living their lives out from under the oppressive thumbs of those scared, immature, insecure males who cannot function in an intelligent society of gender equality.
So yeah. Make THEM pay.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)Try passing that law Texas!! Caught spanking your monkey gets you a few years in the slammer. I hope women in that State bring that forward.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)People who oppose smoking shouldn't have to pay for diseases from smoking with their insurance AND
People who oppose unprotected sex shouldn't have to pay for STD with their insurance AND
People who don't have children shouldn't have to pay for someone else's child or childbirth with their insurance AND
ad finititum
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)should start a fund to buy some of those old black water guys to rough up some old men, who can't mind their own business.
Not sure it's legal, find a woman legislator in Texas to write the bill, then proceed.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)atreides1
(16,103 posts)Who's going to do that? The religious fanatics, the neanderthal women haters, maybe those women who support those fools?
You can't shame fools, who aren't ashamed of what they do, and who seem to have the majority of the voters on their side!
As long as voters support them and these archaic laws against women, shaming them isn't going to do one bit of good!
Initech
(100,129 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)David__77
(23,598 posts)Big government, right-wing socialists out there in Texas.
DK504
(3,847 posts)to rape women without being held accountable. These male pieces of shit have just told a generation it is okay to go out and rape and pillage, they don't have to have any sense of decency or restraint. WTF is wrong with these people?
I'd like to personallt thank all the self hating women that allow this shit to happen.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)That would surely bankrupt the providers!
It is a more rampant problem than the Opioid crisis, (Not to downplay the severity and suffering caused by that issue).
ResistantAmerican17
(3,844 posts)Woo hoo!!! It's great to be a progressive in Texjesustan.
Lonestarblue
(10,138 posts)When, oh when, can we get these idiots out of office! Following Republican logic, I object to people carrying guns outside their homes, therefore I should not have to pay for insurance that covers surgery for people like the Texas guy who tried to shoot an armadillo in the middle of the night and ended up shooting himself when the bullet ricocheted and hit him in the face. Nor should I pay for Viagra if I have a moral objection. And I believe that every Republican in the Texas legislature should have to give written approval for any man to have a vasectomy since they deny the same reproductive decisions to women.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)There is no doubt in my mind that they hate women and just want to punish them.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)Not even close,Oklahoma,Arkansas,Texas and probably Missouri blow us away with CRACK POT shit like this.
This is INSANE on about a dozen levels.................
Doreen
(11,686 posts)to make rape and ANY abuse of females of ANY age LEGAL. Face it women we are fucked in all ways we could be fucked.
riversedge
(70,414 posts)riversedge
(70,414 posts)passed. whow.
J_William_Ryan
(1,760 posts)is the reprehensible right.
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)chowder66
(9,098 posts)Lars39
(26,117 posts)Not according to my religious beliefs. If I get over ruled on that then maybe the "compromise" is special insurance for him to having working equipment again. No insurance, no procedures. Let's see how these asshats will cope, live, or die.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)if it is evil and can be done to women, I am sure the GOP will do it.
J_William_Ryan
(1,760 posts)sums up most on the reprehensible right: ridiculous and cruel.