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   It is easy to feel gloomy about the state of reproductive health   
   care access in the United States right now. Anti-choice state   
   legislatures are chipping away at abortion access from all   
   angles, and the Senate is trying to push through a health care   
   repeal bill that would gut Medicaid and penalize people for   
   buying insurance plans that cover abortion.   
      
   But it’s not all bad news.   
      
   On Wednesday, Oregon’s Senate passed a bill requiring insurers   
   to cover a wide range of reproductive health services ?   
   including abortion ? at zero cost to patients.   
      
   House Bill 3391, or the “Reproductive Health Equity Act Of 2017”   
   as it is being called, also extends insurance coverage for   
   reproductive health care to undocumented immigrants and codifies   
   the right to abortion care, even if Roe v. Wade is ever   
   overturned. It also requires that insurers cover vasectomies at   
   no-cost. (The bill does exempt insurers with religious   
   objections to covering abortion or contraception from doing so,   
   but specifies that the state will then step in to help provide   
   coverage.)   
      
   “As states across the country are stripping women of   
   reproductive health services and coverage, Oregon is leading the   
   way in not only protecting the right to legal abortion but in   
   expanding coverage to ensure that no one is denied access to   
   vital reproductive health services, from contraception to   
   postpartum care,” Grayson Dempsey, executive director of the   
   advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon said in a press release   
   on Wednesday.   
      
   If Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signs the bill ? as she is expected to   
   ? Oregon will become the first to codify abortion coverage at no   
   cost in a state statute, though California already requires all   
   insurance policies in its small group and individual markets to   
   cover abortion. Massachusetts specifies that insurers must cover   
   abortions that are medically necessary, while New York has tried   
   to nudge insurers into covering the procedure by adding it to   
   its model plan of what they should cover.   
      
   On the other end of the spectrum, the ACLU says that 11 states   
   prohibit insurers from including abortion coverage in their   
   policies, except in cases of rape, incest or when a woman’s life   
   is in danger.   
      
   Oregon is already considered to be one of the country’s best   
   states for reproductive rights. It does not have any major   
   restrictions on women’s ability to access care, such as   
   mandatory waiting periods or laws requiring parental consent.   
      
   Carry on, Oregon. Carry on.   
      
   Yes! Carry on.  As MOST ABORTION CLINICS are in poor socially   
   condensed areas, it will help keep the populations of hispanics,   
   niggers and queers down.   
      
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oregon-lawmakers-pass-bill-   
   requiring-that-insurers-cover-   
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