Women Silenced in Debate over New Abortion Restrictions

a congressional committee is considering some absolutely sweeping abortion rule changes that could forever change the way Americans pay for it and look no woman on the committee is standing up to defend women but that might be because as is so often the case there are no women on the committee that are considering these massive abortion legislation changes so I here's the Subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice think a look at them lotta misters in that list it's run by Trent Franks and is filled with a collection a man that I have to assume with names like gomer oh my god King forms nadler conyers this is not only just men they're also specifically white men so minority women your EE not represented on the committee so they're considering a bill called the no taxpayer funding for Abortion Act at any given time as women move through the health insurance system there's like seven overlapping laws that make it to the taxpayer funding can go for abortions but why not an eighth what's up stacked the deck there here are some things that bill would actually do because they're saying the reason for this is that they don't want taxpayer money going into the sorts a public that the health insurance that will get through Obamacare that's what they say but the actual text to the law makes it so that private insurance as well would in many cases not be able to offer the coverage not be able to use that money or make it significantly more expensive so specifically HR seven would for small businesses to pay additional taxes on their health benefits if the offer their employees a plan that covers abortion in the party the hates in almost every case any additional taxes or regulations especially on small business but if you're covering abortions you're gonna get a double whammy taxes and regulation HR seven would also eliminate Medicare expense deductions for abortion care except in cases of *** *** or life endangerment and NARAL Pro pro-choice a pro-choice a lobbying group points at the IRS will be empowered to make the final decision about what counts is *** or *** essentially conducting an bought it victims to ensure that they're not committing fraud turns out totally untrue at the time Obamacare would have def panels but know this bill would essentially have rate panels and so that's the America that we're building thanks to this all-male subcommittee we're going to have probably a panel of all men taking a look at the cases up your particular a plate and figuring out is this actually irate is this actually life endangering are they gonna be doctors maybe maybe not even ap take your chances that they actually pass this now how significant is this out without any insurance coverage for the procedure an abortion can cost anywhere between three hundred and ten thousand dollars out-of-pocket and you can bet your *** extremely rich republican family is if they have a pregnancy that they were planning for perhaps is inconvenient they're going to build a pony pony up at ten thousand dollars but no what's the average American especially the poor American there's not going to be able to pay for this now look we're coming after I the coming of the year where Texas past absolutely draconian anti-abortion legislation around the country we're looking at possible 20 weeks ban on abortion possibly 16 in some cases they wanna go even lower than that and we found studies that show that they're more anti-abortion laws being passed around the country now the have been in the past thirty years so rather than die out decades after Roe v Wade the opposition abortion is becoming more emboldened with every passing year and I don't know what is going to stop it perhaps it's misogynistic me to assume that like women on the opposite side have got to fight for it with the same fervor the same passion that anti-choice women are but that doesn't seem to be happening and yeah I told both up or supposed to win on this because unfortunately we're living in a country where conservative religious Americans are voting based purely on abortion many of them that is all it takes for them to support or not support a candidate but how many women or men for that matter are there out there who are voting purely based on whether or not a politician will protect a woman's right to choose what happens our own body is not enough