Eligibility

All women will be eligible for RU - 486 (with parental consent for minors and a prescription from doctors) under this bill. Women with medicaid who cannot afford to buy their own contraceptives will eligible to receive birth control and the Plan B emergency contraceptive, as well as RU - 486. 

Terms and Benefits

1. All women receiving low cost health insurance from Federal Medicaid will be eligible.
2. Birth control, RU 486 abortion pill, and Plan B emergency contraceptive will be completely covered by Medicaid, with or without prescription.
3. Consultation with patient's primary physician is required for RU 486 abortion pill.

4. Parental consent is required for a minor patient before she can receive RU 486.  
5. States will be required to comply with this act in order to receive Federal Medicaid Funding.

Rights For All Women Act

Rights For All Women Act

This bill ensures reproductive rights for all women, including those who could not previously afford it, by covering Plan B emergency contraception, the RU 486 abortion pill, and any other birth control contraceptive under Medicaid.

Blog Proposition

Blog Proposition for Senators Gural and Bachaud

Insurance Coverage for Birth Control,

 the Morning after Pill, and Mifepristone

Mifepristone

• The abortion pill 
  
• Safe abortion - without dangerous or invasion surgery

Proposition

• To make available to women with a prescription
• Women under 18 need parental consent
• Woman must be within her first trimester of pregnancy to receive the pill
• Costs of the pill should be covered by health insurance
• Costs of other forms of birth control, including the morning after pill should be covered by insurance

Reasoning: RU - 486 is a less intrusive procedure than a surgical abortion. It should be available as a safer decision for women who wish to have an abortion. However, it should not be so available that it is passed around as easily aspirin. Restrictions to minors should include parental consent, and all women wishing to receive the pill should get a prescription from their gynecologists, after having received a proper check up. Health insurance should cover all costs of the pill, just as regular check ups are covered. Also, heath insurance should cover birth control and the morning after pill.  All women have a right to health care, and these medications  should be included in that right for any woman wishing to  use them. It is safe and practical and should not be denied, as long as the proper cautions are taken.