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Bill Pierce, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesman, confirmed with Reuters Health that Thompson is considering such a proposal, and that "the key goal is to provide another opportunity for states to increase access to healthcare services to pregnant women."
Pierce said the administration does not know how many more pregnant women would be eligible to receive healthcare services under such a policy change.
SCHIP covers children, generally through age 18, and does not extend medical coverage to adults. SCHIP was established under 1997 legislation in order to extend healthcare coverage to children in low-income families with incomes high enough to make them ineligible for Medicaid. More than 3 million children are enrolled in SCHIP.
"[I]t is well established that access to prenatal care can improve health outcomes over a child's life," the letter said. The letter was sent earlier this week to various groups, including the National Governors' Association and the American Public Health Services Association (APHSA), for comment to the administration by July 9, an APHSA source said.
"Sounds like a good thing to us," Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, told Reuters Health about the administration's plan.
Johnson said the House last year overwhelming passed a bill without controversy that would prevent the execution of a female prisoner who had been sentenced to death if she were pregnant. The Senate did not take up that bill.
"Some people on the other side are trying to make too much of this," he added of the new Bush plan.
Kim Gandy, executive vice president and president election of the National Organization for Women (NOW), told Reuters Health: "It's a fairly transparent effort...to undermine birth control and abortion rights by trying to extend personhood to unborn fetuses."
She added that the plan to extend SCHIP coverage to pregnant teenagers not eligible for Medicaid is yet another attempt by abortion opponents to try to recognize the fetus as a person. Instead, the administration could "simply grant a waiver to every state" that wanted to extend SCHIP eligibility to pregnant women," she said.
"They are saying one thing and doing something else," Gandy said.
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Pierce said the administration does not know how many more pregnant women would be eligible to receive healthcare services under such a policy change.
SCHIP covers children, generally through age 18, and does not extend medical coverage to adults. SCHIP was established under 1997 legislation in order to extend healthcare coverage to children in low-income families with incomes high enough to make them ineligible for Medicaid. More than 3 million children are enrolled in SCHIP.
"[I]t is well established that access to prenatal care can improve health outcomes over a child's life," the letter said. The letter was sent earlier this week to various groups, including the National Governors' Association and the American Public Health Services Association (APHSA), for comment to the administration by July 9, an APHSA source said.
"Sounds like a good thing to us," Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, told Reuters Health about the administration's plan.
Johnson said the House last year overwhelming passed a bill without controversy that would prevent the execution of a female prisoner who had been sentenced to death if she were pregnant. The Senate did not take up that bill.
"Some people on the other side are trying to make too much of this," he added of the new Bush plan.
Kim Gandy, executive vice president and president election of the National Organization for Women (NOW), told Reuters Health: "It's a fairly transparent effort...to undermine birth control and abortion rights by trying to extend personhood to unborn fetuses."
She added that the plan to extend SCHIP coverage to pregnant teenagers not eligible for Medicaid is yet another attempt by abortion opponents to try to recognize the fetus as a person. Instead, the administration could "simply grant a waiver to every state" that wanted to extend SCHIP eligibility to pregnant women," she said.
"They are saying one thing and doing something else," Gandy said.
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