Israel to fund all abortions for women 20-33 starting next year

[The Straight Story]

Israel will pay for abortions for women aged 20 to 33 regardless of circumstance starting next year, health officials said Monday, adding that they hope to make eligibilty for state funding universal in the future.

Until now, subsidized abortions for women of all ages were available in medical emergencies or in case of rape and sexual abuse. Women under the age of 20 or over 40 were also eligible for abortion funding even when the reason was personal.

Despite the new funding, which was recently approved as part of Israel’s state-subsidized “health basket” for 2014, women will still have to appear before a state committee before terminating a pregnancy.

The new rule opens it up for 6,300 more women to have a state-funded abortion next year, at a cost of about 16 million shekels ($4.6 million). The cost of all state-subsidized abortions is estimated at 24 million shekels a year.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.566198

Somewhere in the US fundie heads just exploded

[53tammy]

1. I am pro choice

I could never understand how a legal medical procedure could be de-funded of public money.
Many religions differ when it comes to when life begins and to hold them to someone else's opinion is wrong.

Next time some yahoo attacks Planed Parenthood I will be glad to tell them that their unconditional support for Israel is not only buying weapons but killing baby's. Then we can start to think about how we can start spending the over 5 billion of humanitarian aid for helping people and not countries.