(DOWNLOAD) "Insurance Coverage and Abortion Incidence: Information and Misinformation" by Guttmacher Policy Review * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Insurance Coverage and Abortion Incidence: Information and Misinformation
- Author : Guttmacher Policy Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,Professional & Technical,Law,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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With a grim inevitability, the issue of restrictions on insurance coverage for abortion moved to center stage as the congressional health care reform debate came to a head in the fall of 2009. What was less predictable, perhaps, was that abortion opponents would misuse Guttmacher Institute research to bolster their assertion that anything short of a flat ban on coverage of the procedure would somehow greatly increase the number of abortions taking place in the United States. According to Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, enactment of the Senate version of the measure--notwithstanding its stringent abortion coverage restrictions--would "lead, as some experts project, to a 30 percent increase in abortions in America. This legislation, if passed, will be the largest expansion of abortion since the Hoe v. Wade decision in 1973." The Senate bill was, in fact, enacted into law in March 2010 with its abortion restrictions intact (related article, page 2). Since then, however, a vastly overstated link between insurance coverage and abortion incidence--and the misuse of Guttmacher data to support it--has repeatedly been alleged at the state level, including as a prominent feature of model legislation drafted for state legislators by the antiabortion advocacy organization Americans United for Life. The Federal Abortion-Mandate Opt-Out Act, which would block coverage of abortion in the health insurance exchanges to be set up by states, asserts that the Guttmacher Institute "confirms that, based on Medicaid studies, more women have abortions when it is covered by private or public insurance programs."
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