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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOhio May Take Away Low-Income Women’s Access To The Most Effective Form Of Birth Control
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/04/3444814/ohio-lawmakers-insurance-iuds/The Ohio legislature is currently considering a measure that would institute a sweeping ban on insurance coverage for abortion in state residents public and private health plans. Restricting womens ability to use their insurance plans to pay for abortion is becoming an increasingly popular anti-choice strategy and Ohios proposed legislation may actually go even further. The measure would also make it harder for low-income women to afford the most effective form of birth control.
House Bill 351, which was the subject of a committee hearing on Tuesday, seeks to prohibit insurance plans from covering drugs or devices used to prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum. That definition effectively bans several types of contraception, like the birth control pill and the IUD.
Residents with public insurance which includes state government employees as well as low-income individuals who rely on Medicaid are already prevented from using their coverage for most abortions. But since HB 351 stipulates they also cant use it for any drugs that inhibit implantation, the legislation could end up functioning as a birth control ban for public insurance plans.
Rep. John Becker (R), who sponsored the bill, said during Tuesdays hearing that birth control pills should not be banned under HB 351. But he still wants IUDs, which are long-acting forms of birth control that are inserted in the uterus, to fall under the ban because he considers IUDs to be a form of abortion. This is just a personal view. Im not a medical doctor, he said.
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Ohio May Take Away Low-Income Women’s Access To The Most Effective Form Of Birth Control (Original Post)
xchrom
Jun 2014
OP
“This is just a personal view. I’m not a medical doctor,” he said. well maybe you should go talk to
leftyohiolib
Jun 2014
#2
ananda
(28,836 posts)1. He's "not a doctor" and yet ...
... he's practicing medicine from the capitol.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)2. “This is just a personal view. I’m not a medical doctor,” he said. well maybe you should go talk to
one before making medical decisions
Vinca
(50,237 posts)3. They will need to change the state motto. "Ohio - Land of Orphanages."
And how's that small government working out? Doesn't every woman want a right wing politician directing her gynecological care?
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)4. Clueless bastards
They think they are taking away a luxury for the poor. The government should be passing out birth control for the poor for free.
Do they think that poor will just stop having sex and reproducing? Heartless and cruel to take actions that will allow unwanted pregnancies.