Shaheen Amendment Expands Female Service Members Access to Abortion

The Daily Beast‘s Allison Yarrow reports that an amendment passed on Wednesday which repealed “the generation-long ban on insurance coverage for abortions for members of the armed services who are victims of rape and incest—finally giving those women the guaranteed affordable coverage in those circumstances that federal prisoners, civilian employees and Medicaid recipients have long received.” 

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