Abortion-benefits dispute heats up (NC)

[ccharles000]

DURHAM -- City and county officials in the western Triangle are keeping an eye on an abortion-rights dispute in Wake County that appears likely to spill over to local governments throughout the state.

Wake County officials, following the lead of Apex's government, last week decided they will no longer allow county employees who need abortions to get them paid for through their workplace health insurance.

The decision was pushed in both places by allies of N.C. House Minority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, a longtime anti-abortion activist who in 1981 won a N.C. Supreme Court ruling that barred counties from subsidizing abortions for welfare recipients.

Stam has since sent copies of the 1981 ruling to "county managers everywhere" in the state, Durham County Manager Mike Ruffin said Monday.

Durham County and the city of Durham offer health insurance that will pay for employees' elective abortions in the first 16 weeks of a pregnancy.

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[HillbillyBob]

1. We live a county north and a county west

I heard about it on the radio.

What really bugs me about these anti abortion assholes is that they dont want abortion for any reason (unless its their own illegitimate bastard on the side).
Yet once the child is born they don't want to 'waste' tax dollars on health care or education or anything, they want the mother and child and extended family to suffer for the seeein of sex. Yet from my own experience the kreestians are some of the biggest closeted perverts goin.