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Healthcare Reform: OP-ED from PIWH
Who Will Fight for Women
By Belle Taylor-McGhee, PIWH President and CEO
The so-called compromise struck by the Senate on women’s access to abortion in healthcare reform strikes a serious blow to a woman’s personal privacy. Requiring women to write two separate checks – one for her general health coverage and one for coverage for abortion – is fundamentally in conflict with a woman’s right to choose, which Roe v. Wade concluded is a personal privacy matter – protecting a woman’s anonymity in the private medical decision to choose abortion.
Let’s not kid ourselves that this most recent deal isn’t wrought with serious problems. Just how will the abortion check be handled in the new healthcare system? Who will have access to that information? How will women with supplemental abortion coverage explain that to an abusive partner? And how will the price of abortion coverage under the new system be set?
It’s clear that the fundamental right to choose is no longer a slippery slope. It’s actually fallen off the cliff.
PIWH is committed to raising these critical questions and working with our allies to ensure that we get answers. If Congress isn’t going to fight for women, then we must. As the final votes are passed on healthcare reform, we need your support to stop this erosion on women’s health before it hits the ground.
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