Abortion will
not be covered under insurance, a new salvo fired by the Trump administration
to get him all the brownie points he could want to win his next election term.
Addressing a gather at the ‘March For Life’ rally, Trump has warned the
California State not to go against the federal law. He has asked California not
to ask insurers to cover abortion and has threatened to withhold federal
funding if the state doesn’t end its mandate.
Other
states have also been warned to come under attack, if they don’t adhere. These
will include Illinois and Oregon to start with. Indeed the whole funding budget
now stands in jeopardy as Trump uses the same strategy to throttle his own
people now- economic terrorism.
California’s
decision that private health-insurance policies include abortion coverage was at
one time, challenged by a Catholic mission, the Missionary Guadalupanas of the
Holy Spirit. A three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeals in August
dismissed that lawsuit.
However,
Trump has used exactly this point to focus his attention on the conservative
Christian population in America. It is
therefore no wonder that his administration is going out of its way to court
and expand support from antiabortion voters heading into the 2020 election. His
campaign released a video Friday announcing the launch of “Pro-Life Voices for
Trump.” The president has made a series of other moves aimed at conservative
Christian voters, including a pledge to renew guidance on prayer in
schools and the launch of an “Evangelicals for Trump” coalition.
Undeniably,
there are billions now at stake. California has continued to show a broad
minded approach to things and this was worded in the Democratic Governor Gavin
Newsom who said “California will
continue to protect a woman’s right to choose, and we won’t back down from
defending reproductive freedom for everybody—full stop.”
With Trump’s threat, California might have to
face insecurity over the $51 billion it gets from HHS (United States Department
of Health & Human Services) and for its Medicaid program. The six states
that mandate abortion coverage get more than $100 billion annually in federal
Medicaid funds alone.
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