In some states it can take a court order to receive Medicaid for an abortion that meets the criteria for a federally funded abortion. Clinics in many states have little to no relationship with Medicaid because reimbursement for qualifying abortions rarely happens. Some clinicians are reluctant to sign Medicaid request forms when there is not a police report not because they question the validity of the woman’s claim, but because they are afraid of being accused of Medicaid fraud. Some women whose pregnancy could potentially endanger their lives cannot get funding because life endangerment can be hard to prove. Would you be surprised to find out that these problems are still happening this year? Problems with the laws surrounding abortion are
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Siegle in her article "Abortion And The "Woman Question": Forty Years Of Debate." Siegle’s article leads the reader through a brief history of the fight for equal rights for women and for a woman’s right to choose what happens to and inside her own body. Up to 1970 many states had made abortion illegal, but in the late 1960’s and 1970’s women started to fight back. Siegle gives examples of the many new rationalizations for legalizing abortion. People argued that sex and relationships were changing and that legislation should follow suit. According to her, relegalizing abortion became a much larger symbol for women’s rights activists that illustrated the inequalities between men and women in other arenas. The fight for women’s rights is still very much alive today. Just because abortion does not always grab headlines, does not mean that the issue is …show more content…
Philip Bump wrote an article titled “The New Congress Is 80 Percent White, 80 Percent Male and 92 Percent Christian” which highlights the skewed representation of the public in Congress. He notes the changes in the religious ratio in Congress when he says, “Over the last few decades, Congress has gotten less Protestant, but it’s still overwhelmingly Christian.” This is an important statistic to remember when considering the types of choices being made by Congress. As Rabbi Dennis S. Ross points out in his piece, “Congress, Abortion, and the Separation of Church and State,” “The Abortion debate is, at heart, a debate over church-state separation.” Representatives such as Daniel Lipinski are not shy about basing their congressional decisions on their religious beliefs. Some representatives consult their various religious leaders before casting their vote on certain issues. If the representatives are basing their decisions on their religion or their religious leaders, then church and state are not actually separate, which can skew legislation in favor of certain religions’
Siegle in her article "Abortion And The "Woman Question": Forty Years Of Debate." Siegle’s article leads the reader through a brief history of the fight for equal rights for women and for a woman’s right to choose what happens to and inside her own body. Up to 1970 many states had made abortion illegal, but in the late 1960’s and 1970’s women started to fight back. Siegle gives examples of the many new rationalizations for legalizing abortion. People argued that sex and relationships were changing and that legislation should follow suit. According to her, relegalizing abortion became a much larger symbol for women’s rights activists that illustrated the inequalities between men and women in other arenas. The fight for women’s rights is still very much alive today. Just because abortion does not always grab headlines, does not mean that the issue is …show more content…
Philip Bump wrote an article titled “The New Congress Is 80 Percent White, 80 Percent Male and 92 Percent Christian” which highlights the skewed representation of the public in Congress. He notes the changes in the religious ratio in Congress when he says, “Over the last few decades, Congress has gotten less Protestant, but it’s still overwhelmingly Christian.” This is an important statistic to remember when considering the types of choices being made by Congress. As Rabbi Dennis S. Ross points out in his piece, “Congress, Abortion, and the Separation of Church and State,” “The Abortion debate is, at heart, a debate over church-state separation.” Representatives such as Daniel Lipinski are not shy about basing their congressional decisions on their religious beliefs. Some representatives consult their various religious leaders before casting their vote on certain issues. If the representatives are basing their decisions on their religion or their religious leaders, then church and state are not actually separate, which can skew legislation in favor of certain religions’