Organizations like the American federal
government, the Catholic Church, and nearly half the states in
US want to or do limit a woman’s access to abortion in their
employer-provided health care packages. The new wave of legislation,
policy, and social commentary focused on women’s reproduction has
been framed as a matter of social policy, but ignored are the
economic and legal requirement of equal pay for equal work. These
legislative actions hope to limit women’s choices when it comes to
reproduction but by limiting the cash value and practical value of
health insurance for women and their ability to work uninterrupted by
pregnancy, these policies mandate pay inequity between genders.
