Michigan Democratic Leader, Gretchen Whitmer. The board of medicine just approved a Right to Life of Michigan petition banning abortion insurance coverage. If approved by the Republican majority legislature (and not allowed to go to the voters), it would require patients to purchase an additional rider to cover abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.

Nearly half of the pregnancies in the United States are unintended, and about 40% of those are terminated. The cost of a first trimester abortion ranges anywhere from $300 to $950. Nearly 60% of women who experience a delay in accessing safe, legal abortion have cited the time it took to raise the money and make arrangements. Those delays increase the cost of abortion, as well as the risk of complications.

(via bebinn)



I’m all about planning for the unexpected. I keep money saved just in case my car breaks down and I need to repair/replace it. I even keep money set aside for an unexpected date. My word, I have a shoe box that has money in it my bedroom closet that’s just for a what-the-hell moment.



But this is absurd. The whole concept of unplanned pregnancy is that you didn’t know it was coming, wasn’t planning on it coming, and to actually expect women to set aside money just in case having sex causes pregnancy is absolutely ridiculous. If anything, men should be required to set aside money. They earn more than we do. Why should it be thrust upon us put money aside that we probably need for something else, or that we’d rather save for something else we want?



This proposal is nothing more than a hidden woman-tax. The “tax” may not go to government, but it sure as hell looks like someone in the government wants us to set aside money to pay for services that should be provided free to every woman at any time during her pregnancy BY THE GOVERNMENT.



Pregnancy is harmful to our health. It is an absolute medical condition, and should not be treated like an elective choice that we brought upon ourselves. The desire for sex is a biological trait; it is an instinct that we have, and should not be treated like a fucking bad thing that we do to ourselves. Sex is part of being a living, breathing human being. It’s part of our nature. We choose with whom we sexually engage, when we aren’t being forced or manipulated into it by some man, but we don’t choose the biological and psychological need for sex and intimacy. Having sex is no different than eating. It is something our body compels us to do, and denying our body’s desire and need for sex is harmful to our overall well being.



Never should a woman be forced to take money out of her own, finite resources to remove an invading cluster of cells that are wrecking her body and mind. Never.