Dear Feministing Community,
In the interest of spreading the word of some potential set-backs in health-care reform legislation, I thought I would share what I came across today.
Thanks to an email update from the National Women's Law Center , I discovered that the newest version of the bill going through the Senate may end up containing language that would eliminate coverage of abortive procedures to insurance subscribers -- including those who already have this coverage on their plans.
While I understand the politicing that goes on when trying to get such a monumental bill passed, preventing access to what is already an obstacle-ridden reproductive-health need is backwards and potentially devastating to reproductive freedom.
If you choose to contact your Senators -- which I highly encourage you to do -- you can ask them to include include the language in the Capps Amendment that would continue to provide coverage in cases where abortion is already a legal procesure.
Let's not let women's health needs get swept under the rug here!
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there's probably a terrible "throw the baby out with the bath water" joke here that i'd like to point out but not make.
I don't know whether to hit the "Report Abuse" button or not... is this a joke?
Well, you see, I've noticed a trend among misogynists. I've noticed that many of them just don't know the basic rules of English, so when he said "your stupid", that kind of gave it away.
Of course, it's different in cases where the person in question is not a native English speaker, but this guy doesn't seem like he fits into that category.
Have we not often said in the past that people who don't like abortions shouldn't have them? I cannot accept that sentiment as being consistent with forcing them to nonetheless pay for abortions.
Yet the self-awareness to come up with the username "the_Misogynist" is something that many bigots seem to lack... that gave me pause. But what do I know? Other than "sucking dick" of course...
This is a reply to Siby.