Rosie's Law is a proposed legislative act in Texas aimed at restoring health insurance coverage for abortion care services.
[2] Unable to afford a legal abortion at a clinic, Jimenez sought a cheaper and unsafe option, resulting in a fatal infection.
[3] It was written to repeal House Bill 214[4] which prohibits both private and public insurances from covering abortion services.
The proposed updated Rosie's Law introduced in 2023, SB 1314 and HB 3606, would require Medicaid and private and federal health insurance marketplace plans to provide coverage for: The proposed law also would require the removal of cost sharing from these plans, for all forms of birth control including vasectomies and long-acting reversible contraceptives.
On April 21, 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that the Hyde Amendment did not violate the United States constitution in Harris v.