Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-N.J., faces angry constituents at a town hall meeting Wednesday in Willingboro, N.J. MacArthur wrote a key amendment to the American Health Care Act. Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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At a town hall meeting in Willingboro, N.J., on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur was confronted by angry constituents who demanded to know how the Republican health care bill that he helped write would affect rape victims.
A young man named Joseph said he understood that the bill would allow insurance companies to deem rape a pre-existing condition and deny coverage to people who have been raped.
He demanded that MacArthur defend his support of the bill, which, he said, would “force women to choose between justice and silence to protect their affordable health care.”
MacArthur tried to assure the crowd that rape victims would be protected under the bill. He said the notion that rape could be treated as a pre-existing condition had been debunked.
Inside The Town Hall
A Constituent Question
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