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Bush Proposal Gives States Right to Include Unborn in Prenatal Care.(Brief Article)
In a move predictably lambasted by pro-abortionists, the Bush Administration is proposing a regulation which would allow (not compel) states to offer prenatal care beginning at conception under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
What the Bush proposal would do is simply give the states (which administer SCHIP) the option of including the unborn in their programs. This makes his or her mother eligible for prenatal and delivery care.
Enacted by Congress in 1997, SCHIP's purpose is "to deliver health care to low-income children in families that made too much money to qualify for the joint state-federal Medicaid program but too little to purchase private health insurance," as the Boston Globe explained.
Currently SCHIP covers low-income children under age 19 whose families aren't eligible for Medicaid. (Medicaid is the state-federal health-insurance program for the poor.) According to estimates provided by the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), nearly 11 million women of childbearing age lack health insurance.
"Prenatal care for women and their babies is a crucial part of the medical care every person should have through the course of their life cycle," said Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. "Prenatal services can be a vital, lifelong determinant of health, and we should do everything we can ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Bush Proposal Gives States Right to Include Unborn in Prenatal...