Rape insurance': Texas House of Representatives passes bill to make women...

...buy extra coverage for abortions.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rape-insurance-texas-women-abortions-healthcare-coverage-house-representatives-bill-incest-foetal-a7885786.html

A bill which forces women to buy separate insurance coverage for having an abortion has been approved by the Texas House of Representatives. The measure will ban insurance coverage for abortions and require women who want coverage to go out of their way and buy a separate plan for an abortion.

The bill, which does not make exceptions for abortions that follow rape, incest or fetal abnormalities, now awaits a vote in the Senate.


I kinda understand why abortions should not be on regular insurance because you should take precautions to prevent getting pregnant but if you're raped and get pregnant you still have to pay, this bill needs amending asap.

...buy extra coverage for abortions.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rape-insurance-texas-women-abortions-healthcare-coverage-house-representatives-bill-incest-foetal-a7885786.html

A bill which forces women to buy separate insurance coverage for having an abortion has been approved by the Texas House of Representatives. The measure will ban insurance coverage for abortions and require women who want coverage to go out of their way and buy a separate plan for an abortion.

The bill, which does not make exceptions for abortions that follow rape, incest or fetal abnormalities, now awaits a vote in the Senate.


I kinda understand why abortions should not be on regular insurance because you should take precautions to prevent getting pregnant but if you're raped and get pregnant you still have to pay, this bill needs amending asap.

This seems a fairly abhorrent policy, I fail to see why abortion in general shouldn't just be covered by regular insurance.

Why does this seem so difficult for people to grasp; pro-lifers are against abortion because they believe the foetus has a right to life so the question of whether conception was consensual or not is irrelevant

This seems a fairly abhorrent policy, I fail to see why abortion in general shouldn't just be covered by regular insurance.

I kinda understand why abortions should not be on regular insurance because you should take precautions to prevent getting pregnant but if you're raped and get pregnant you still have to pay, this bill needs amending asap.

The bill will require women to purchase extra coverage for non-medical emergency abortions (:https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08/08/texas-house-abortion-insurance:http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=851&Bill=HB214).

Good move by the Republicans.

This seems a fairly abhorrent policy, I fail to see why abortion in general shouldn't just be covered by regular insurance.

Surely this bill just means that those women who would never have an abortion because their personal (most likely religious) beliefs would preclude them from doing so, no longer have to pay for it within their healthcare package? The only effect I can see this bill actually having is that those women who would never have an abortion, can now opt out and so not be paying to insure themselves for a procedure they would never have. It doesn't actually make getting an abortion any harder, does it? If anything, isn't forcing all women to pay to cover a procedure that they may not want the immoral option?

I should add I'm entirely in favour of women being able to abort, for whatever reason. I don't think it should be legislated whatsoever, beyond setting a maximum age at which abortion can occur. It just doesn't seem like this bill actually makes having an abortion any harder. It's just people getting upset about an emotive subject so far as I can tell.

You have no understanding of insurance, do you? I wish I could opt out of any treatment I will never need because I am not a smoker nor fat. How about I get my genes checked and then opt out of treatment of every disease I won't get.

This is quite clearly a sexist move by backwards Texas.

I'm not disagreeing that Texas has some pretty backwards views on abortion; I mean, that's what happens when you put religious nuts in charge. But given as there's no suggestion that the price of abortion will be hiked up, I still don't see this as massively devastating. It certainly wouldn't be my first port of call if looking for examples of ridiculous religiously-motivated policy in the Deep South.

Specifically targeting certain types of treatment in insurance is not just morally wrong, it's a direct attack against those people needing it. In this case women. It defeats the whole purpose of insurance.

Specifically targeting certain types of treatment in insurance is not just morally wrong, it's a direct attack against those people needing it. In this case women. It defeats the whole purpose of insurance.