20130531

Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act



  
The Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act. This title is inherently misleading. It sounds as if you personally will be able to pay less by simply opt-out of insurance coverage for abortion. This is not the case. You will instead have to opt-in for insurance coverage for abortion services, including those in cases of rape and incest. 

 In order to receive coverage for abortion, women need to purchase an additional rider – indeed making women plan ahead for an unplanned pregnancy or an unplanned act of sexual violence. As noted by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan spokesperson Meghan Groen, insurance riders are mostly unavailable, and as they rely on market demand, riders for abortion would be more limited than others. “Nobody anticipates having an unwanted pregnancy,” stated Groen.

20130523

Introduction to Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan

This blog is part of the mission of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan. It is designed to provide information on legislative updates, community events, and ways to get involved.

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan, the advocacy arm of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Michigan, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit.

Our mission of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan is to protect and enhance the ability of the affiliates to deliver reproductive health care services by affecting policy makers through electoral and non-electoral activities.

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan also has a Political Action Committee (PAC), which focuses strictly on fundraising to endorse pro-choice political candidates and electoral work.

PPAM serves as the voice of the Michigan Planned Parenthood affiliates and its patients. We work to ensure that women and families in our state have access to high quality and affordable reproductive health care; to ensure that our youth can count on us for medically accurate and age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education; to ensure that the civil liberties of all people are protected; and to build and activate a dynamic community-based advocacy organization that works to improve reproductive justice through public activism and legislative advocacy.

We work to fulfill our mission through aggressive issue education campaigns, comprehensive leadership development, and effective organization and movement building. PPAM has been serving underrepresented populations throughout Michigan for 30 years as an advocate for 25 community health centers, their nearly 90,000 patients, and the millions more low-income women and men in need of family planning services who are uninsured or under-insured.

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