Under House Bill 214, Texas women will have to pay an additional insurance premium to buy coverage for non-emergency abortions. Texas Democrats who opposed the law argued that it effectively requires women to carry “rape insurance”; Gov. In debating the measure, Democrats argued that it is largely political theater, as relatively few plans in Texas cover abortion at this point. Texas is not the first state in the country to block insurance companies from covering abortion. “Texas is Texas.

Source: Huffington Post August 15, 2017 21:00 UTC