Access to Maternity Care: Another Area for Common Ground?
Thank goodness Sen. John Kyl doesn’t speak for all pro-lifers:
While his desire to keep health care costs down is understandable, this attitude about the importance of maternity care from someone who brands himself as “pro-life” isn’t.
Maternity care is expensive. It doesn’t take too much imagination to think that a woman with few financial resources might take those costs into consideration when deciding whether to carry a pregnancy to term.
Since child bearing and it’s costs impacts women most directly, expanding access to quality maternity care is an important plank in the emerging common ground platform on abortion.
With insurance companies dropping maternity coverage altogether and defining cesarean sections as pre-existing conditions, there’s a lot of work to be done, not just in improving our health care system, but in fostering a more compassionate culture toward women and mothers.
John Kyle might not agree with that, but I can think of several pro-life and pro-choice leaders who probably would.
Not to mention the fact that women do not get pregnant on their own and just because they are the ones that carry the child doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be cost sharing with the men of the world that have just as much of a role in producing offspring.