I understand what your objections are and am fully aware of the kinds of abuse of public funds you describe and object to, that goes on constantly. You are right; there is no trust, because, for more than fifty years, on no subject have the American people been lied to, manipulated politically, and miseducated more by this central government than about the ending of life prematurely by secondary parties.
This has gone on while “healthcare” has become hideously more expensive (far outstripping general inflation for decades), for Americans, causing more and more Americans, particularly the working middle class, to have financially obstructed and/or limited access to needed and necessary care.
Ironically, this proposal is in no small part inspired by that injustice, this time legally obstructed and/or limited access, for the same reason a majority of American women originally supported the “right” to an abortion under the Roe v Wade decision. Roe, in the beginning, was about a woman’s independent access to safe, competent medical care, not just abortions (although references to back alleys and wire coat hangers do bear mention here). Abortion only became central to this national disgrace among modern wealthy nations of the United States never having developed a nationalized system of health protection for everyone under the medical system because at that time, most American women were obliged to get medical care by way of being married to a man who received access from his employer, paid for by that employer, not the central government. (And access via an employer who pays is still, in 2024, how most Americans secure medical services. It is inherently unjust, unfair, and unhealthy to link access to healthcare to employment status and/or marital status. *Also, contrary to popular belief, the ACA and other claimed attempts to provide a “safety net” for those without customary access, have failed.)
Thus, women were expected to be having sex with a man to be able to see a doctor when she needed one in 1973.
That, is what made elective abortions central to the issue of this country’s failure to ever implement an equitably accessible, nationalized system of health protection for our People. But the all-male SCOTUS of 1973 was seemingly incapable (or unwilling) to understand this back-drop precedent attempting to be set by way of Roe v. Wade, and focused exclusively on the limited, ugly, scenario of felony rape as the only issue of injustice being brought by the suit. Rape was lied about as being central to the case in order to get the SCOTUS to consider the matter at all. RIGHT TO MATERNAL/FETAL HEALTHCARE & EDUCATION to stabilize the abortion issue - #187 by PeoplesMandate
Any law that attempts to use “elective” as a distinguishing factor is doomed to failure because there is no clear medical definition of what an “elective” procedure is. Elective vs. what? Elective vs emergency is an element of timing, period, and that is a matter of OPINION on the part of the medical professional(s) attending the case…each and every one of which is different. Even if couched in more specific terms such as public monies will not be used to terminate a “healthy,” or “normal” pregnancy, there are still no absolute criteria of what constitutes “healthy” or “normal.” That is still a matter of opinion on the part of the doctors and other caregivers making that medical, not legal, determination. So, it becomes impossible to assign punishments for misuse of public funds.
The truth is there is no standardization from which to write a “one order fits all” civil law to cover the myriad possibilities of outcome in any medical situation requiring the input/help of a medical practitioner, not just pregnancy. The proposal for a federal law being discussed here is, ultimately, about the struggle with that medical, not legal, truth. The author has gone to great effort to compare outcomes in “pro-life” states to **pro-abortion for any reason whatsoever" states and has been motivated, it seems, to make this proposal because what she’s found is (and has no doubt seen in her experience with real-time, real people cases) there is still no provision, in the United States of America, insuring a woman who needs medical care which might well save her life, will receive it, regardless of her marital status, economic situation or class, or anything else. …because we’ve allowed the legal system and legal professionals, as well as politicians/lawmakers, still, fifty years later, far more of them men, than women, and their “donors” to make all the major decisions about how medical care is PAID for in this country–and it’s failing US
This situation we’ve had for fifty years has left doctors in the middle (discussed extremely well in this proposal), and offensively, and with medical disregard for pregnant women and the child they are carrying by the State, has caused doctors to have to choose, at times, between their own medical ethics, state law in contradiction with federal law, and the politics of the hospital where they practice, potentially affecting the doctor’s own livelihood, in making decisions about what is best for their patients–as, there are always two patients involved from the moment two haploid cells become one diploid conceptus–that is simply biological fact, and true regardless of whether the majority of a medically un/miseducated general population (including most people in the legal/political systems) does not want to recognize this fact, and would prefer to think (believe) the second, unique, individual patient is “just some tissue,” properly described as “it” or “medical waste” that is appropriately disposed of in a garbage bag labeled as such-- all of it a dehumanizing construct which makes still-living human beings comfortable with the ending of life prematurely on an “elective” basis.
ALL surgeries/medical interventions are elective on some level when the “choice” is made to proceed. That word, “choice,” not being defined in a medical context, being picked up by the legal system, and, one thousand times worse, by our politics, in 1973, is arguably the nidus of misinformation and outright lies that have set this country on a path of no less than civil war ever since. The SCOTUS did not have the ability OR authority to offer the “right” they claimed to have found in the Constitution in deciding Roe. RIGHT TO MATERNAL/FETAL HEALTHCARE & EDUCATION to stabilize the abortion issue - #187 by PeoplesMandate
…and neither do the state legislatures have that ability or authority now. Meanwhile, what no one admits or focuses on is the fact the entire half-century of hysteria and insanity about who is allowed to “give orders” to the medical system, and impose punishments for doing something about which there is no definitive “right” or “wrong” has done irreparable harm which has been grotesquely amplified by the fact this country has, at the same time, made the ending of life, prematurely, on the order of “others,” extremely profitable for, yet third party interests…who are largely responsible for the extraordinary escalation in the cost of medical care in this country.
The proposal People's Mandate Healthcare for All Americans https://www.facebook.com/100036084640155/ has linked with this proposal to promote the adoption of a non-tax, unique, new, national revenue stream (an annual, national-to-individual personal health savings account system of insuring equitable financial access to the medical system) mode of payment for the needed and necessary medical care discussed herein as well as all other needed and necessary medical care such that any individual care ‘elected’ returns to being the private decision between the patient and her (or his) medical professionals*. (*who remain under a system of regulatory oversight to be determined by the state, but who can and will be provided with much clearer information as to what can and will be cited as an infraction, and how that infraction can and will be investigated within the health savings account system)
The People’s Mandate also wholly supports and recommends expanding the educational outreach outlined as supplemental to this proposal being implemented nationally as well, so that we can begin to reverse the fifty years of untruth, and end this second American Civil War once and for all.