Please forgive me for this. Most of you who know me know that I am not one given to rants, especially about this particular topic; however I need, as a Pennsylvanian by birth, to put my $.02 in here. As per This link, the PA State Senate is going forward on a bill to ban abortion coverage from health insurance policies.
The Pennsylvania state Senate is advancing a bill to ban abortion coverage from policies obtained through health insurance exchanges that are to begin in 2014 under last year’s landmark federal health care law.
Senators voted 37-12 on Tuesday to send the bill to the House. The federal government says the step is allowed under the law, but some abortion rights proponents say federal law already restricts taxpayer funding for abortion coverage, and that this bill goes farther by restricting abortion coverage in private policies.
A number of other states are considering identical or similar bills.
The federal law requires states to set up the exchanges to provide a marketplace where small businesses and individuals can buy coverage. The bill doesn’t stop someone from buying supplemental abortion coverage outside the exchange.
I am completely ashamed of my home state. I know that the nickname for Pennsylvania is Pennsyltucky because of the inability to get past the backwards beliefs of some religious purists/fundamentalists, but WTF is wrong with my home state? I am going to say this just one more time:
If you do not now or never did have a uterus or a period, you have no fucking right to decide anything at all regarding what happens with a woman's CHOICE to give birth or not give birth and nothing that you do will ever change that. More importantly, if you are basing your "decision" on religious reasons, then fucking support that baby for the entirety of its life. Pony up the fucking cash if you are going to try to tell me that your religion says that I am going to hell for having an abortion and since you don't believe in it, you are going to make it fucking illegal.
I am so fucking sick & tired of these MoFos being so fucking puritanical and afraid of sex that it ain't even funny. These fucking bastards need to get a grip and get the fuck out of everyone else's underwear! I don't give a fuck about Anthony Wiener's indiscretions, I don't give a fuck about whatever Hollywood starlet showed her pussy in public and I damn sure don't give a fuck about who is having an abortion and who is not having an abortion. FUCK!!! Did our government not learn the lesson from Prohibition that the government can not legislate morality? We have bigger problems than Anthony Wiener's wiener! WTF happened to equal protection under the law? Does that only count if you have a dick, are white and are straight? Is that the only way that you are "worthy" of equal protection?
Give me a fucking break. I am so sick and tired of the fundamentalist phoneys who want to control everyone and everything, meanwhile they are fucking everyone and everything with a fucking pulse (and some even without a pulse, I am sure).
I admit freely that when I was pregnant with my daughter, Franki, I made the choice not to have an abortion; however that was my choice. I would never, ever judge a woman for making a different decision and it damn sure is not the government's job to make that decision either. If you don't have a uterus, a period or a vagina, the decision whether to carry a baby IS NOT YOURS!!! GET THE FUCK OVER YOURSELF AND GET OVER THE IDEA THAT YOU DECIDE MY FUTURE OR MY MORALITY!