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“The Republican-dominated Michigan state legislature pushed through a bill on Wednesday requiring women to purchase separate insurance policies if they want to have an abortion, the Detroit Free Press reported.
“I don’t think elective abortion should be a part of insurance,” state Rep. Nancy Jenkins (R) told the Free Press. “This doesn’t affect access to abortion. It will still be legal when this law takes effect. Who should be required to pay? Not Michigan taxpayers.”
However, the law, which takes effect in early 2014, will also ban women from purchasing the policy after becoming pregnant under any circumstances, including rape and incest, causing opponents to refer to it as a policy on “rape insurance.””* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/11/michigan-women-will-now-have-to-purchase-rape-insurance-to-get-an-abortion/
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This is a link to the Mlive article with a list of how people voted. I am not very pleased with my representative or state senator. What’s really crappy is that the person who covers the largest city in the area, also covers a bunch of smaller more conservative districts… I’m not saying the district happens to be cut up unfairly, but…So big shout out to Tonya Schuitmaker, and Margaret O’Brien casting those yays… sigh. Whats really crappy is that the area is home to K-college and WMU, what female college student is going to want to talk to their parents about purchasing or adding this insurance to their family healthcare plan. Imagine that talk to your daughter…
http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/12/how_they_voted_michigan_lawmak_3.html