Michigan "Rape Insurance"

[Jody Lane]

This law assumes that since only women can get pregnant, then women alone should be responsible for the financial burden if a pregnancy results from rape.

Of course not every woman will be raped, and fewer still will become pregnant due to rape, yet ALL women are forced to anticipate being rape and plan ahead for the consequences and choices she would make by having to purchase a “rape insurance” rider.

By that same reasoning, not every man will be a rapist, yet some will rape. Not all of those rapes will result in an unwanted pregnancy, but some will. So shouldn’t ALL men be required to carry “rape insurance” as well?

Shouldn’t that money go into a fund to reimburse women for a lifetime of expenses that being forced to have a child will incur?

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/12/michigan_legislature_approves_1.html

[Niceguy1]

1. that is horrible

but it is not rape insurance, is abortion insurance and lack of coverage is a side effect results the same

[Jody Lane]

2. Yes it is abortion insurance...

However, a women does not get pregnant by herself under any circumstances, rape or otherwise. The point is that this law unfairly targets women, especially the impoverished, and religious ideology just delivered a fatal blow to equal rights and Roe v Wade.

[gollygee]

3. So much for economic libertarianism

that our Republican "friends" in Lansing have supposedly been such fans of. They tell private insurance companies what they are allowed to cover and how they have to set up insurance plans.

They only like libertarianism when it benefits them. They're all about government interference when THAT benefits them.

[HockeyMom]

4. Young girls

So a parent will need "rape insurance" for their minior daughters too?