Most are totally ignorant of the Pregnant Women's Support Act. The goal was to reduce the abortion rate by 95% in ten years. It contained legislation for the following:
4/22/2009--Introduced.
Pregnant Women Support Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to increase public awareness of resources available to pregnant women to carry their pregnancy to term and new parents.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary to make grants for the purchase of ultrasound equipment for examinations of pregnant women.
Prohibits a health insurance issuer offering individual coverage from imposing a preexisting condition exclusion or a waiting period or otherwise discriminating against a woman on the basis that she is pregnant.
Provides for continuation coverage for newborns.
Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to allow states to extend health care coverage to an unborn child.
Requires health facilities that perform abortions to obtain informed consent from a pregnant woman seeking an abortion.
Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) higher education pregnant and parenting student services offices; and (2) programs to work with pregnant or parenting teens to complete high school.
Authorizes grants for services to pregnant women who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking. Requires states to require a pregnancy determination for homicide victims.
Requires the Secretary to provide for supportive services for pregnant women, mothers, and children.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase and make refundable the tax credit for adoption expenses.
Authorizes appropriations to carry out the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC program).
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the eligibility threshold for food stamps.
Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990.
Authorizes grants to provide to eligible mothers education on the health needs of their infants through visits to their homes by registered nurses.
Authorizes grants for collecting and reporting abortion surveillance data.
The act was
defeated by... PRO-LIFE REPUBLICANS. Why? Because it was
drafted by DEMOCRATS.
You see... the Republicans want to make sure that the "butchering" continues so that they can manipulate people into voting for them every election on the single claim that they are "Pro-Life". Babies being "butchered" is good for Republicans... the more babies are being butchered... the more people will vote Republican, even if the Republican policies are against their own interests.
You see, what Anti-Abortion extremists tell you is that Democrats are "Pro-Choice". What they
don't tell you is... Democrats are constantly fighting to address the concerns and issues that women face when confronted with a crisis pregnancy and therewith reduce the abortion rate. It's a shell game. And since the Democrats are idealistic bleeding heart weenies... they come out looking like dolts every time. lol
Evidently... you can be Pro-Life and do nothing significant to reduce the abortion rate and people praise you... or you can be Pro-Choice and pull out the stops to reduce the abortion rate and people curse you. My friend, things are not what they seem. Even Pro-Choice Democrats want to reduce the abortion rate.
And all of you know that I'm right. But few have the guts to tell it like it is.