Breaking on court TV scroll Abortion no longer procedure covered

[saracat]

by military health insurance. A sailors wife who is carrying a fatally defective fetus cannot have her surgery paid by the insurance! This is what we are looking forward to folks!
They state her life isn't in danger! Listen up all of you who think Roe isn't in danger! The first steps are being taken.

[eleny]

1. And a Roberts confirmation will be the next nail in Choice's coffin

[K-W]

2. Ugh, that is aweful. EOM

[melody]

3. This isn't even about abortion

It's about control. The sociopaths in high office couldn't give a rat's nethers about supposed "unborn babies", they just want to control women, that's all.

[AuntPatsy]

4. They don't care unless it happens to them, may they experience

what they themselves fail to recognize as being a valuable right. Perhaps then, they will quit whining about what they sincerly do not understand.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. This has GOT to be stopped

I remember the 'old days' .... and they were bloody.

Make your car window display NOW. Cheap, fast, and easy.

[LissaM]

6. IF you are from MN

There is a walk for choice on September 18th...I don't have the website handy where you can sign up, but I do have the email address of the people sponsoring it: [e-mail]... It's in Minneapolis. I am new to DU so I'm not very sure who a lot of people are but it would be cool to meet some at the walk! :)

[Stryguy]

7. Blown out of proportion

I'm no Repug lover and dear god the last thing I am is Pro-Life but this is being blown out of proportion. I'll bet your insurance doesn't cover abortions either.

And this has nothing to do with a potentially fatal effect to the mother. That isn't considered an abortion, it's a life saving measure.

Lets not sound like a bunch of freepers trying to turn nothing into something. So the Military wife or the military woman will have to visit a clinic like every other American that can't afford to pay for an abortion out of pocket.

While I'm _VERY_ pro-choice, the last thing I want is government paid abortions either.

My 2 cents. Sorry if it contradicts yours.

[saracat]

8. And let us see what gender associated surgeries the military doesn't

to pay for for m I suppose it is all right with you that they would pay to have the women go into surgery and deliver the fetus that is going to die? That will cost us a lot more if that is your concern. And what about paying for the phycological damges that is being inflicted by forcing her to deliver the fetus? This is worse than some of the military tortures at Abu Garib!

[elehhhhna]

10. abortion is considered elctive surgery unless the mother's health is at

risk. Most insurance will not cover it.

[elehhhhna]

11. Hey! They could also save a buck by cancelling all prenatal tests...

since defective fetuses must be carried to term, why bother testing for anything?

[saracat]

12. Most cover prenatal. The baby is fatally ill!

[rainbow4321]

9. Armed forces medical plan limits abortions (baby had fatal birth defect)

So instead they want the parents to go thru with the entire pregnancy knowing the baby will be dead at/soon after birth? Guess mental anguish and emotional suffering are part of the repuke culture of life...someone aslso needs to show the asswipes a neonatal intensive care bill---depending on what measures they would take a NICU bill could be quadruple the $3,000 abortion bill--a single DAY in the NICU for the sickest of the sick runs around $10,000...then there is the infant suffering thru all the procedures, etc...



http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NAVY_ABORTION_FIGHT?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-08-18-17-51-50

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that U.S. armed forces medical benefits should cover abortion costs only when a mother's life is at risk, a decision that the judges acknowledged was "callous and unfeeling."

The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came in the case of a Navy sailor's wife whose fetus had a fatal birth defect. She had an abortion five months into her pregnancy, but coverage for the procedure was denied.

She filed a lawsuit claiming an armed forces health plan owed her $3,000 for the procedure. The government argued that refusing to cover such services "furthers the government's interest in protecting human life in general and promoting respect for life."

In Thursday's 3-0 ruling, judges said they were not judging the "wisdom, fairness or logic" of congressional legislation that limited abortions under military medical plans.