"Pro-Life" my ass! Texas republican (naturally) whines about covering prenatal and maternity

[Archae]

Fine, how about insurance companies no longer pay for your Viagra, dickless?

GOP Congressman Laughs Off Prenatal Coverage: ‘Why Do We Have To Pay For That Coverage That We Can’t Use?’

In a radio interview on Friday, Republican Rep. Pete Olson of Texas laughed off the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that health plans cover prenatal and maternity care, asking why men “have to pay for that coverage that we can’t use.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gop-congressman-laughs-off-prenatal-coverage-why-do-we-have-to-pay-for-that-coverage-that-we-cant-use/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Some men's wives will become mothers; what if those men have no insurance

that pays for prenatal care and delivery? What the delivery is complicated and expensive? Don't men care whether their wives have access to good care during their pregnancies and deliveries?

By the way, why should women have to pay premiums for coverage for prostate cancer treatment?

[haele]

7. Some men don't care. After all, Wives are fungible and disposable in some "religions".

If she's a just baby factory for some righteous He-Man, and something goes wrong, then she's defective. He'll just have to get another - after he's got everyone to pray for her, and his loss, of course.
And this sort of man will make it his mission to plead and pray for every donation he can to get someone else to pay for the defective woman's care, because his earned money is his Gawd-Given right, and shouldn't be spent on anyone else.

I'm not joking. I've met some of these troglodytes. And they always seem to be is some form of small-town community "leadership" role.

Haele

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Those do exist, unfortunately, but I'm pretty sure they aren't a majority of men,

not even Trump voters. Men with families for the most part want to take care of them, and if their wife has something like an ectopic pregnancy or premature labor or eclampsia or some such crisis I doubt very many are going to just dump her in the gutter.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. The sad thing is that most so-called pro-life voters won't care

They'll keep voting for this sort of Republican anyway.

As far as I'm concerned, the so-called "Right to Life" movement is joined at the hip to the reacttioaries' efforts' to gut healthcare to the sick, the injured, the elderly, and pregnant women and little babies no matter how many Bibles they wave or how hard they polish their little tin halos. They'll probably claim that supporting the repeal of the Affordable Care Act is "supporting the culture of life."

[Vogon_Glory]

3. We Texans know about our reactionaries

Can Michiganders, Ohioans, Wisconsinites, and Hoosiers say the same? The Red Death party covers a lot of territory.

[Archae]

14. Believe me, I know.

I'm in Wisconsin, and the corruption in our state Republican party makes the whole government stink on ice.

My congressman is Glenn Grothmann, who said money is more important to men.

My Senator is Ron Johnson, who compared uninsured health care to not having insurance while driving a car.

[ck4829]

4. Yeah, when was he ever prenatal, right?

He must have just spawned from some pool of ooze.

These anti-choicers are ghouls.

[gratuitous]

5. But women have to pay to have prostate health covered as a basic service

Not to mention keeping the boner-in-a-bottle pills on all the formularies.

[Freethinker65]

6. Have him explain that to his Mom

His Mom who got fucked by his Dad. His Mom who had to undergo often painful changes to her body to accommodate his growth as a fetus. His Mom who gave birth either by undergoing a scarring surgical procedure known as a Cesarean Section or series of utterly painful contractions expelling him from her widened vagina. His Mom who, if she was younger and it happened again today, would probably not be able to afford an uncomplicated pregnancy from conception to delivery without insurance. His Mom that if she knew her son would grow up to be an ignorant cruel chauvinistic asshole would have demanded contraception and perhaps, if that failed, even considered abortion.

The party of Family Values strikes again.

Rant off.

[smirkymonkey]

8. God, I am so sick of this stupid fucking argument against women's healthcare!

A lot of us will never use insurance for various illnesses and health conditions that we personally don't have or aren't susceptible to, but that isn't how insurance works you goddamned idiot!

[Major Nikon]

9. They never were "pro-life". They are and always have been "forced-birthers"

[MiniMe]

10. Turn you head a cough Bozo!

[Yavin4]

12. Sooooo...Force a woman through pregnancy but don't pay for her maternity care??

Um...can someone please explain the logic behind this argument?

[mythology]

13. For the same reason as a childless person, I pay for schools

Because a healthy and well-educated population is a good thing. Blithering idiot.