Taking us backwards, one step at a time to when it was considered the girl or woman’s fault for getting raped, medical decisions are politically controlled, and only the rich (like the wives and daughters of politicians) can afford to travel to get an abortion. The poor have no right to the same treatment.
For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, contains a provision that would rewrite the rules to limit drastically the definition of rape and incest in these cases.
With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Republicans propose that the rape exemption be limited to “forcible rape.” This would rule out federal assistance for abortions in many rape cases, including instances of statutory rape, many of which are non-forcible. For example: If a 13-year-old girl is impregnated by a 24-year-old adult, she would no longer qualify to have Medicaid pay for an abortion.
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Other types of rapes that would no longer be covered by the exemption include rapes in which the woman was drugged or given excessive amounts of alcohol, rapes of women with limited mental capacity, and many date rapes.
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The “re-definition” of the rape exception “is only one element” of an “extreme” bill, she adds, citing other provisions in the law that pro-abortion rights groups believe would lead to the end of private health insurance coverage for abortion.
For those that arent old enough…
WHO remembers PLANNED PARENTHOOD?
WHO REMEMBERS THE COMMERCIALS??
What OTHER NATION, gives more power to an UNBORN CHILD, then the USA DOES?
WHAT nation, gives RIGHTS to the parents, unEQUALED in any other nation for donating a child to adoption. I HOPE you know that EITHER PARENT can resign the adoption, EVEN after the child is given. EVEN if its FORCED RAPE..
Adoption in other nations..you hand over the baby, and the parents have NO SAY..
There are MORE children with NO PARENTS(killed/drown/…), in other nations, then there are in the USA.
REGULATED CONTROLLED ADOPTION has only been around since about 1880.. WHEN it was a FAD for rich ladies to HAVE CHILDREN.
Many of those LADIES, could not have children after a previous incident or ABORTION in a back room. So, they decided to PICK AND CHOOSE from those children on the streets.
PREFERRED ARE BABIES…NOT 10 year olds.
Yes, times have changed, but if you THINK that there are NOT children in the USA to be adopted, you are WRONG. Foster parents is a great organization…BUT YOU WONT find many babies.
Anyone who supports this bill should have a DEEP background check to see if there is a “lov…” er, um … “rape-child” in their past.
doughoist, you don’t see the hypocrisy and moral relativism of your statement? Do you understand the meaning of hypocrisy and moral relativism?
Creapy UncDon, what is in YOUR past we should now about?
know, not now
If the government provided shoes and then tried to stop, you would say, “Only the rich deserve shoes?” The “poor” seem to manage ok in buying cars, cell phones, and electronics. Why can they never afford food and doctor’s visits?
Just as there are soup kitchens and doctors who treat the poor for free, the private sector can take care of the girls who can’t afford to slaughter their children (while thousands of us are on adoption waiting lists).