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Health insurance bans for abortion

An anti-choice White House has motivated anti-choice legislators to pursue every possible measure to block access to abortion. “Opponents of abortion are using a strategy of restricting it by any means,” said Kelli Garcia, director of Reproductive Justice Initiatives and senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. “They feel emboldened, and are going back to restrictive measures they have already passed, and seeing what they can add on to it. We are seeing this with waiting periods, delays, everything. Before the ACA, maternity care wasn’t covered, so historically women’s health care in general was carved out of health insurance. Now, the state is trying to insert itself into what should be a private decision between a woman and her health care provider.”