To quote from the Catholic Charities U.S.A.. The most immediate threat of the Medicaid deeming provision is the pressure on poor pregnant women to end their pregnancies inexpensively through abortion rather than to carry them to term. A legal immigrant who becomes pregnant and does not have the means to obtain health care will be able to finance a S250 abortion at a local clinic much more easily than either she or her sponsor can pay for prenatal care or put down a $1.000 deposit at a hospital for labor and delivery. In summary. as currently drafted. S. 1664 would have the following negative consequences: It shifts costs to States. local governments. and hospitals.
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