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Sep. 21st, 2004 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingAmerican law now allows any health-care professional or any instution associated with health care, including *insurance companies*, to refuse to provide abortions, pay for them, or make abortion-related referrals, even in cases of rape or medical emergency.
The bill's text and some comments here.
Yes, that's right. Ectopic pregnancy? You're going to die? Tough. Got a prescription for birth control? Your pharmacist doesn't have to fill it. Got a medically required operation and a prescription for it and all that? Your insurance company doesn't have to pay for it, even if your policy says you're covered.
A friend of a friend was asked (just last night) why most med students get their first internal gynecological examination on a patient who is in the hospital for something completely unrelated and *drugged into unconsciousness*, and hence incapable of objecting: Her answer was "Because women's lives don't matter."
The bill's text and some comments here.
Yes, that's right. Ectopic pregnancy? You're going to die? Tough. Got a prescription for birth control? Your pharmacist doesn't have to fill it. Got a medically required operation and a prescription for it and all that? Your insurance company doesn't have to pay for it, even if your policy says you're covered.
A friend of a friend was asked (just last night) why most med students get their first internal gynecological examination on a patient who is in the hospital for something completely unrelated and *drugged into unconsciousness*, and hence incapable of objecting: Her answer was "Because women's lives don't matter."