US politics re: abortion, actually good news for once
Way to go Maryland!
I find the last paragraph about requiring insurance that provides labor and delivery benefits to also include abortion care benefits to be a pleasant surprise. I'm on Medical Assistance in Minnesota and they cover childbirth services but NOT abortion (or at least not elective abortion, I don't recall about health-risk-to-parent abortions).
US politics re: abortion, actually good news for once (except disability eugenics language?)
I am worried about the language that sounds like it could be used for eugenics purposes, but I still maintain that the law shouldn't be involved in that decision.
"The bill says the state cannot intervene on a woman's decision to have an abortion ... at any other time during a woman's pregnancy if ... the baby 'is affected by genetic defect or serious deformity or abnormality.'"
US politics re: abortion, actually good news for once (except disability eugenics language?)
@stelepami my interpretation was “the state cant prevent a woman from getting an abortion unless the pregnancy has been declared viable by a qualified practicioner, and even then they cant stop her in xyz conditions” which is limited enough in circumstance that i’m not, personally, hugely worried?
In terms of eugenics concerns, women being pressured into early term abortions in terms of current prenatal tests? eg downs syndrome (when tested for) is generally found before the fetus is viable
US politics re: abortion, actually good news for once (except disability eugenics language?)
@Satsuma I'm not truly worried, I just have this niggling feeling in the back of my head that language of that nature might come from a place of believing that people with disabilities aren't worthy of being born? I doubt it actually is written with that intent and I firmly believe that it's not the state's place to make those decisions anyway but who decides what's a "defect" in that clause?