Reply #46: Correcting the links...they got broken in transit.

[madfloridian]

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/04/12/the-new-health-care-fight-abortion-coverage-in-state-exchanges.aspx

"The fight comes courtesy of Section 1303 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (page 779 here), which reiterates states’ rights to regulate abortion coverage among their insurers. The key sentence: “A state may elect to prohibit abortion coverage in qualified health plans offered through an Exchange in such State if such State enacts a law to provide for such a prohibition.”

This provision actually does not give states any rights they didn’t have before...... it restated the existing laws regarding insurance regulation in a way that homes in on abortion, giving those who oppose abortion rights a specific clause to attack."

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-14/abortion-foes-slam-shut-all-openings-ann-woolner-correct-.html

"" That the health-care overhaul passed by Congress last month continues the ban on federal funding for abortions --expanded it, by some accounts -- isn’t enough, either.

Using another provision in the new legislation, Republican lawmakers in six states are trying to prevent all private insurance plans in yet-to-be-formed exchanges from offering any kind of abortion coverage, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. Nor could women pay extra, with their own money, to buy abortion coverage."

http://blog.aul.org/2010/04/16/news-coverage-of-auls-state-opt-out-legislation/

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"Leading that charge is Americans United for Life, the country’s oldest, anti-abortion rights group. Every year, AUL publishes a set of state-level model legislation to restrict abortion rights (this year’s volume, Defending Life 2010, weighs in at 832 pages). Before Obama signed health care into law, AUL had begun distributing a model “federal abortion mandate opt-out act,” tailored specifically to the provision mentioned above, which they’ve added as an addendum to the 2010 collection."