Gone are the days when a
woman could walk in an abortion clinic and receive an abortion with no
questions asked. President Obama and Governor Snyder have created laws that
have changed our health care system in two dramatic yet different ways. The state of Michigan has always been open to
the right of women over their bodies, however with changing times comes new
laws restricting the abilities of clinics operating without oversight and
restrictions. This new law according
to the associated press changes the ways these clinics operate. The law
requires facilities where at least 120 abortions are performed annually to get
a license as a free-standing outpatient surgical facility. That would mean more inspections and higher
costs for the clinics, and in some cases would require renovations. Every year these License clinics will have to
agree to quarterly inspections at the expense of the clinic as well as apply
for death certificates for every aborted fetus. This means that these clinics can no longer sell the disposal of fetuses
to research labs, Hair Care Company’s and make up companies but either Cremate
or burial of these documented remains. The
one exception of donating to the “stem cell” research labs that were legalized
by voters in the ballot during the 2000 elections here in Michigan. Does this law indeed protect the women or is
it an assault of abortions and the rights of women? Women must undergo many new steps before
being granted an abortion Guidance counseling to determine whether or
not the women is seeking abortion for legitimist reasoning or whether or not
the women is being cohearsed or forced into the abortion ageist her own wishes.
This will allow the councilors to inform women of alternative options as well
as give clear guidance into the health risk to the women’s body or ability to
have children in the future.
This as well gives the councilor
a chance to inform the patient of the option to adoption. To the opponents of this bill it is seen as
an attack on women’s right over their own bodies. In Roe Vs. Wade, The
Court held that a woman's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy
protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision gave a woman total autonomy
over the pregnancy during the first trimester and defined different levels of
state interest for the second and third trimesters. As a result, the laws of 46
states were affected by the Court's ruling.
So the second and third
trimesters are left to the state to decide what they deemed appropriate. What
this has done is provided a loop hole that just recently has been achieved by
our very own state. Prolonging the procedure to reach the second trimester
allowing the state to deny the abortion to the women. This has not been done
yet however the rate of abortions has fell 30% since this law has hit the books
according to the polls taken by the associated press.
Does this law have legitimacy
if it conflicts with the Affordable care act?
Although
much controversy has risen since this law was enacting it does not violate the
affordable care act. Because the law requires all women who want to have
coverage to buy additional insurance for abortion alone/ alone with their
current coverage. As of march 12, 2014
all coverage plans from privet or government health care plans will no longer
cover abortions in compliance with the affordable care act. Leaving it up to
the women to buy insurance by the following day to be within compliance with the
state’s laws restricting abortion. If no insurance is purchase, no abortions
can be performed, not even if you have cash to pay for the procedure. In a
world of changing healthcare system, there must be revamping in all aspects of
the field. In the minds of State legislators they deem this revamping
appropriate. Gone are the days when a
woman could walk in an abortion clinic and receiving an abortion with no questions
asked.
Both
the president and the governor of Michigan have taken dramatic steps in
changing the health care system, even if they may not concur with each other’s
ways of doing so. There are many new and yet controversial steps that must be
taking in order to follow threw in receiving an abortion whether or whether or
not the women agrees with the terms. The legitimacy of the State of Michigan’s
overhaul and reform of the Abortion laws coincide and are legitimate with the
presidents mandated and Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable care act,
Better think about using
protection, you may be denied an abortion and don’t forget to purchase your
abortion Insurance.