Democrats: Texas GOP wants to make women buy rape insurance to cover abortions

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Texas Tribune

TEXAS TRIBUNE
09 AUG 2017 AT 09:30 ET


Texas women would have to pay a separate health insurance premium to get coverage for non-emergency abortions — what an opponent dubbed “rape insurance” — under a bill given early approval by the Texas House on Tuesday.

House Bill 214 requires women to pay an additional insurance premium if they want their health plan to cover abortions performed outside of medical emergencies. It does not contain exceptions for instances of fetal abnormalities, rape or incest.

State Rep. John Smithee, R- Amarillo, who is the lead author of the bill, said opponents of abortion should not have to subsidize the procedure through their insurance plans.

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House Democrats fought the proposal in a series of amendments, attempting to add exceptions for severe fetal abnormalities, ectopic pregnancies, rape, incest and the mental health of the mother. They also tried to remove a provision in the bill that prevented insurance companies from offering savings on premiums for the supplemental plan covering abortion — and add language that would put any of those savings into an account to fund rape kit testing.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/democrats-texas-gop-wants-to-make-women-buy-rape-insurance-to-cover-abortions/

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State Rep. John Smithee

[SHRED]

1. Call it a "gender tax"

That's what it is.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. If an abortion for involuntary intercourse with involuntary fertilization ISN'T a "medical

emergency", I don't know what is.

[luvtheGWN]

15. Just think of everything the woman who was raped

would have to go through in order to "prove" she was raped in order to collect her insurance claim.
This is just, just, just BEYOND BELIEF. I can't believe the complete and utter idiocy and hate that this bill contains.

[Bengus81]

30. Yeah...I could see that now in court with her Insurance company.....

Well Ms. Smith exactly WHAT were you wearing the day you "claim" you were raped?? A dress? Then you were asking for it.

[MissKat]

3. Then Men

Men should have to pay for "Sperm Release Waste". So that every time they release sperm and an egg is NOT fertilized all those little swimmers were totally wasted, right? They swam for naught.

Poor little guys. Brought forward only to die.

Maybe men should have to collect ejected sperm and give them a funeral.

I'm watching "Handmaid's Tale" and my tolerance is on a thin edge right now. We have the remnants of the Puritans telling 45 that God brought him forth to lead us.

And Mike and his Dominionists are panting on the sidelines. Christians-- 2,000 years of "Any day now!" Lord, protect me from your followers.

[Guilded Lilly]

12. Move over MissKat I want to sit on your bench!

My tolerance for ignorant "domination" has reached an end point. These damned insecure, spineless, weak brained GOP males (and any across the aisle counterpart) are an acute malignant stain on their gender.
It is all about control. Not religious purity, not morality, not pro-life, not compassion in any way for the unborn.
They are scared-assed and cowards.
They want to subjugate, penalize and humiliate females who dare to be smart, strong and independently living their lives out from under the oppressive thumbs of those scared, immature, insecure males who cannot function in an intelligent society of gender equality.

So yeah. Make THEM pay.

[Bengus81]

20. Yep...I would call that Male abortion and should be BANNED!!

Try passing that law Texas!! Caught spanking your monkey gets you a few years in the slammer. I hope women in that State bring that forward.

[Fresh_Start]

4. People who oppose guns shouldn't have to pay for gun injuries with their insurance either AND

People who oppose smoking shouldn't have to pay for diseases from smoking with their insurance AND
People who oppose unprotected sex shouldn't have to pay for STD with their insurance AND
People who don't have children shouldn't have to pay for someone else's child or childbirth with their insurance AND
ad finititum

[Corgigal]

5. Texas women

should start a fund to buy some of those old black water guys to rough up some old men, who can't mind their own business.

Not sure it's legal, find a woman legislator in Texas to write the bill, then proceed.

[The Wielding Truth]

6. WOW. This is beyond belief. Time to shame these fools out of office.

[atreides1]

18. Shame them out of office?

Who's going to do that? The religious fanatics, the neanderthal women haters, maybe those women who support those fools?

You can't shame fools, who aren't ashamed of what they do, and who seem to have the majority of the voters on their side!

As long as voters support them and these archaic laws against women, shaming them isn't going to do one bit of good!

[Initech]

7. Calling these people "deplorable" is being too kind.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Religious Terrorists would be closer to the mark. ISIS comes to mind for example.

[Initech]

10. They're ISIS without the suicide bombers.

[Ford_Prefect]

21. Seems to me they are forcing women to commit suicide with out the bombs or near enough to it.

[David__77]

9. So much for the "free market."

Big government, right-wing socialists out there in Texas.

[DK504]

11. Adult males, I'll never call them men, trying to write the ability

to rape women without being held accountable. These male pieces of shit have just told a generation it is okay to go out and rape and pillage, they don't have to have any sense of decency or restraint. WTF is wrong with these people?

I'd like to personallt thank all the self hating women that allow this shit to happen.

[Kleveland]

13. Perhaps these "men" should have to pay dickhead insurance!

That would surely bankrupt the providers!

It is a more rampant problem than the Opioid crisis, (Not to downplay the severity and suffering caused by that issue).

[ResistantAmerican17]

14. Once Again Texas Stands out as an Exceptionally Backward Shithole

Woo hoo!!! It's great to be a progressive in Texjesustan.

[Lonestarblue]

16. Republicans truly hate women.

When, oh when, can we get these idiots out of office! Following Republican logic, I object to people carrying guns outside their homes, therefore I should not have to pay for insurance that covers surgery for people like the Texas guy who tried to shoot an armadillo in the middle of the night and ended up shooting himself when the bullet ricocheted and hit him in the face. Nor should I pay for Viagra if I have a moral objection. And I believe that every Republican in the Texas legislature should have to give written approval for any man to have a vasectomy since they deny the same reproductive decisions to women.

[smirkymonkey]

17. I have had it with these bastards.

There is no doubt in my mind that they hate women and just want to punish them.

[Bengus81]

19. And they keep saying Kansas is the State with the most NUT JOBS in power....

Not even close,Oklahoma,Arkansas,Texas and probably Missouri blow us away with CRACK POT shit like this.

This is INSANE on about a dozen levels.................

[Doreen]

22. I keep telling people that this administration is going

to make rape and ANY abuse of females of ANY age LEGAL. Face it women we are fucked in all ways we could be fucked.

[riversedge]

23. But men's Viagra and other like products are still being paid for by others who do not use them.

[riversedge]

24. " rape insurance under a bill given early approval by the Texas House on Tuesday." so, already

passed. whow.

[J_William_Ryan]

25. Such

is the reprehensible right.

[Gothmog]

26. It is tough living in Texas at times

[chowder66]

27. Oh look assholes profiting off rape. nt

[Lars39]

28. Has the male in that pic had prostate problems....need a TURP?

Not according to my religious beliefs. If I get over ruled on that then maybe the "compromise" is special insurance for him to having working equipment again. No insurance, no procedures. Let's see how these asshats will cope, live, or die.

[bronxiteforever]

29. This would have totally shocked me but now

if it is evil and can be done to women, I am sure the GOP will do it.

[J_William_Ryan]

31. That

sums up most on the reprehensible right: ridiculous and cruel.