, a Republican, appointed Amy Coney Barrett to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died in September 2020. The act also would have paid for the procedure for the first time for undocumented, low-income women through the state Medicaid program.
As one of her last acts at a state Senato Weinberg worked with outgoing Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, to introduce a new bill, S49, that directs the state Department of Banking and Insurance to study whether an insurance mandate is necessary. If the study reaches that conclusion, the department can adopt rules that requires state-regulated health plans cover the procedure.
“There was a lot of give and take on this issue in the last week. But there was never a question that we were not going to protect all the rights that women have today to make their own reproductive choices,” Weinberg said after the vote. “I can’t think of any way I could better spend my last day as a Senator than to be continuing the fight for women and their access to complete health care.
Republicans on the Assembly committee offered amendments that included barring women from other states from coming to New Jersey for abortions, and required minor to seek a parent’s consent before the procedure. Democrats who control the committee voted to table the amendments. There is some suspense around what will happen at the voting sessions Monday. Some lawmakers who voted yes to release the bill from committee said they didn’t know if they could support it in the final vote.
As opposed to requiring smart banking to invest in a CultureOfLife?
Force them to pay for killing babies.