Kansas fights to keep restrictions on abortion health-care coverage
Back in May, Kansas lawmakers approved a ban on insurance companies offering coverage for abortion as part of their general health plans. Kansas lawmakers, being the generous sort, left an exception for when a woman’s life is at risk. State Rep. Pete DeGraaf, an associate pastor in his first year of lawmakin’, became the poster boy of the fight to restrict women’s rights to abortion, demanding a ban on coverage for abortions of rape pregnancies.
DeGraaf, who clearly thinks about women first, offered this bone to women: They could purchase separate “abortion-only policies.” What a generous and considerate man he is. So concerned about women was DeGraff that he argued: “We do need to plan ahead, don’t we, in life? … I have a spare tire on my car.”
DeGraaf actually compared a rape pregnancy to blowing out a tire. Plan ahead for rape? Shameful. This is all a reminder that on Friday, the state of Kansas will be defending its new law restricting insurance coverage for abortions (via KAKE).
