Michigan bills could limit access to abortions [View all]
Source: Detroit Free Press
Michigan bills could limit access to abortions
December 8, 2012
By Robin Erb
Detroit Free Press Medical Writer
Legislation that could limit access to abortion -- several measures that shot through Thursday in a chaotic day in Lansing -- drew sharp criticism Friday from Michigan residents who said the proposals run roughshod over women's rights and could allow doctors to pick and choose patients based on religious or moral beliefs.
A package of three Senate bills would prevent insurers on the state's health care exchange -- a provision of health care reform that Michigan must still establish -- from automatically including coverage for abortion in their policies offered on the exchange.
Rather, an employer or an individual purchaser of the plan would have to request and pay separately for abortion coverage.
As it stands now, nearly 80% of plans in Michigan cover abortion, according to Lori Lamerand, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Mid and South Michigan.
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Michigan, working harder and faster to form the new state of Michissippi.
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