Reason #1 to vote for Bonilla
If you think that adult women working for the federal government should be denied health coverage for birth control, then you and Bonilla have a lot in common. Henry Bonilla voted against the Hyde Amendment to H.R. 2264 which require insurance companies to cover prescriptions to contraception if they offered prescription coverage to federal employees.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund:
Half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended and half of all unintended pregnancies end in abortion. Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion. Although contraception is basic health care for women, far too many insurance policies exclude this vital coverage. Representatives voted on requiring federal employees’ health benefits to cover prescription contraceptives and related services if they cover other prescription drugs. (7/15/99, Lowey Amendment to H.R. 2490, a vote in favor of this amendment was a pro-choice vote, amendment passed 217-200, roll call 303)
Henry is a strong advocate of the community health centers program which provide discounted, high quality health care to every patient, regardless of their ability to pay.
Maybe he wanted to make sure the women were married before they could get a contraceptive prescription? Or better yet, have their husband’s permission?
He is a leader in increasing support for biomedical research which is making great strides toward treating, preventing and curing diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis and cancer.
Unless it used embryos that would have been discarded anyway.
The bill would require funding of human embryonic stem cells taken “from human embryos that have been donated from in vitro fertilization clinics, were created for the purposes of fertility treatment, and were in excess of the clinical need of the individuals seeking such treatment,” if “it was determined that the embryos would never be implanted in a woman and would otherwise be discarded.”
Bonilla voted against the proposal.
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