California threatened with funds loss over abortion coverage
Source: AP
The Trump administration on Friday threatened California with a potential loss of federal health care funds over the states requirement that insurance plans cover abortions.
The announcement, timed to coincide with the anti-abortion March for Life in the nations capital, came hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to address the marchers in person, becoming the first president to do so. Religious conservatives are a core element of Trumps political coalition, and his administration has gone out of its way to deliver on their demands.
The federal Health and Human Services Department said it is issuing a notice of violation, giving California 30 days to comply with a federal law known as the Weldon amendment. That law bars federal health care funding from being provided to states or entities that practice discrimination against a health care organization on the basis that it does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.
The head of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, Roger Severino, said California is violating that restriction by requiring insurance plans to cover abortions. According to Severino, 28,000 Californians had abortion-free plans prior to the states requirements and have now lost that option. The federal government has received complaints from an order of nuns the Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit as well as Skyline Wesleyan Church near San Diego.
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PSPS
(13,626 posts)sdfernando
(4,947 posts)Seriously? Are the "nones" worried that one of their own my make use of this?
Retrograde
(10,168 posts)If you're opposed to abortions, don't have one. Just don't get in the way of women who decide to have the procedure for whatever reason: it's none of your business.
And 28K people? A very small percentage of the population seem to have lost this non-coverage. I bet the next step is to refuse to pay for any form of birth control.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)is EXACTLY where this is going. Make no mistake. trumpie is pandering to the anti-abortion zealots because he is losing huge numbers of potential voters daily. The repubs have been trying to get to this point for decades. No other president has ever so openly embraced these nutbags as trumpie has. That's because he knows that this is what keeps them from defecting. The man is a total hypocrite on this. He could care less about these people or their opposition to abortion.
kimbutgar
(21,235 posts)Well see how that works out for him. Even some of his deplorable women supporters might be appalled. Please proceed MFer45.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)King_Klonopin
(1,307 posts)pfitz59
(10,401 posts)Who worked for the Becket Fund, an extremist group trying to force religion into government (Sen Josh Hawley is also a part of that group) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Severino