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novapsyche"Yahoo News Story: Bush Plan Would Extend Medical Coverage to Fetus"
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - States would be able to define embryos and fetuses as children eligible for health insurance coverage under proposed rules to be issued by the Bush administration.
The controversial policy would allow states, under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), to extend medical coverage to pregnant women and their fetuses.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Thursday that he would shortly issue a proposed regulation clarifying the definition of "child" under SCHIP to include fetuses from the point of conception.
[...] But some critics see the plan as a way to establish the concept that a fetus is an individual.
NARAL President Kate Michelman blasted the plan as the Bush administration's "latest ploy in its ongoing stealth campaign to have government make abortions illegal." She said that the proposal "demonstrates its commitment to the strategy of undermining a woman's right to choose by ascribing legal rights to embryos."
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And people wonder why I continue to describe myself as a feminist.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - States would be able to define embryos and fetuses as children eligible for health insurance coverage under proposed rules to be issued by the Bush administration.
The controversial policy would allow states, under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), to extend medical coverage to pregnant women and their fetuses.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Thursday that he would shortly issue a proposed regulation clarifying the definition of "child" under SCHIP to include fetuses from the point of conception.
[...] But some critics see the plan as a way to establish the concept that a fetus is an individual.
NARAL President Kate Michelman blasted the plan as the Bush administration's "latest ploy in its ongoing stealth campaign to have government make abortions illegal." She said that the proposal "demonstrates its commitment to the strategy of undermining a woman's right to choose by ascribing legal rights to embryos."
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And people wonder why I continue to describe myself as a feminist.
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Date: 2002-02-01 07:46 pm (UTC)*laugh* Truer words spoken?