Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Before FOCA...PFA

"Prevention First Act"

And it's already IN Congress! Here's what it would do (keep in mind what Catholic Hospitals/Pharmacies would have to do):
  • Prohibit[s] a group health plan from excluding or restricting benefits for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services
  • Requires hospitals, as a condition of receiving federal funds, to offer and to provide, upon request, emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault.
  • Expand[s] Medicaid's coverage of family planning services ... and contraception
  • Expands Medicaid rebates to manufacturers for the sale of covered outpatient drugs at nominal prices to include sales to student health care facilities and entities offering family planning services.
Planned Parenthood is also pushing similar measures in the States, like in Ohio they are pushing a bill that would:

• Force insurance companies to cover birth control if they cover other prescriptions;
• Mandate that every hospital in the state provide emergency contraception to rape victims and tell the victims that emergency contraception does not cause an abortion;
• Replace abstinence-only sex ed with programs that gives equal time to the use of birth control and don’t tell children to save sex for marriage;
• Put taxpayer money into “teen pregnancy prevention” programs;
• Do away with the right of pharmacies and/or pharmacists to refuse to sell products that conflict with their religious beliefs;
• Rewrite the Ohio health funding bill to ensure that PP is directly eligible for taxpayer money for family planning services.

American Life League has the details.

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