One more event to take place in Kansas on September 16, besides Kansans United in Voice and Spirit meeting at the state capital in Topeka.....the court will hear arguements about abortion, and about whether Governer Browncrack can tell insurance companies that they cannot cover abortion in Kansas, while they do in other states. This is really nonsense. Really.......it is. First Trimester abortions have been legal in the United States since 1972. The procedure, known as a dialation and cutterage, or D & C, is not only used for first trimester abortions, but other health problems. Browncrack wants to tell women that in order to have this procedure, they must have separate insurance. Insurance companies are saying that they cover this procedure everywhere else, refusing to cover it in one state would be complicated. So....if I am pregnant, and the baby dies in the first trimester, but I fail to miscarry (this actually happens; it's called a "missed abortion") I have to pay out of my pocket in order to avoid the ensuing life-threatening infection that could result from not having a D & C, or go to another state? Also, what's to stop women from having abortions in other states? Oh........that's right! Browncrack wants to make sure we don't have policies that cover it. Maybe we can all buy insurance in other states to begin with. Maybe I will just keep the insurance I have always had in Maryland. There are, and will always be, ways around this. And.....what if a woman is raped? Or is pregnant with a child who, for medical reasons, will not survive after birth? Is Browncrack forcing that woman to remain pregnant? Why? Is there something more sinister to this than meets the eye? Human trafficking, maybe?
It was just a thought. Here's the article.
It was just a thought. Here's the article.
I personaly have had a "missed abortion" and the D&C was covered, and yes it was in Kansas. Your facts are not accurate.
ReplyDeleteThey ARE accurate. If you would try reading the verbs in my post, so that you can interpret the difference between PRESENT and FUTURE tense, you willl see that this change in insurance law is something Browncrack wants, but which has not yet taken place. Where do you people come from?
ReplyDeleteAbortion is one thing. An incomplete miscarriage is another. It is called a medically necessary procedure dictated by a doctor's diagnosis.
ReplyDeleteNo arguement from yours truly on that. Brownback wants to argue with it, though. And lawmakers and lawyers often have no clue about matters scientific when they try to legislate medicine.
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