Women as a purely biological entity.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 @ 12:01 pm | Abortion
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All religious fundamentalists have a few characteristics that they share in common; one of them is their view of a woman as a purely biological entity whose sexuality must be studiously controlled. The issue of abortion then comes down to punishing women for having sex.
-mg
November 18th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Thank you for bringing up this topic, Mike.
The National Women’s Law Center published a couple of interesting reports that you can find here http://action.nwlc.org/site/PageNavigator/nowheretoturn_Report. (The summaries are short so it’s not a ton of reading.)
A non-smoking female pays more for insurance than a smoking male even if maternity care is removed from the plan.
Only 13% of individual insurance plans in this country even offer maternity coverage!
This “gender rating” is seen in group health insurance plans, as well. Iowa is NOT one of the few states that protects group coverage from such gender rating, people – the plans at my workplace are astronomical simply because we have so many women of child-bearing age that work here.
Good God, a woman who has been the victim of domestic abuse is considered a pre-existing condition!
You can go to http://www.awomanisnotapreexistingcondition.com/ if you’re interested in information about how to help.
I’ll get off my soapbox now.