[Mb-civic] Chipping Away at Roe vs. Wade

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CHIPPING AWAY AT ROE VERSUS WADE

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Chipping Away at Roe vs. Wade 
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November 28 2004

With no hearings or debate, the Republican majority this month grafted the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act onto the $388-billion appropriations bill, approved last week. Although the name implies it protects women who are seeking abortions from discrimination, the reverse is true. The act legalizes discrimination, allowing any physician, hospital or health insurer to refuse to perform or pay for abortions and even to tell pregnant women that the option exists. That new right will extend, in practice, to employers, who get to pick which health plans a company will offer. 

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