A Missouri antiabortion-rights bill (SB 793) banning coverage of abortions in the state's health insurance exchange and imposing new restrictions on abortion providers will become law without the signature of Gov. Jay Nixon (D), The Hill's "Healthwatch" reports (Pecquet, "Healthwatch," The Hill, 7/14). The measure will take effect Aug. 28 (Lieb, AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 7/14). The law makes Missouri the fifth state to bar coverage of elective abortions in the health insurance exchanges that will be established in 2014 under the new federal health reform law (PL 111-148)...
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