Reply #51: Here's your answer... [View All]

[Xithras]

I currently have Blue Cross coverage, which DOES pay for abortions with a $125 copay.

If the general plan I'm under were added to the exchange, abortion funding would be stripped from my current coverage. Why? Because the Stupak amendment not only prohibits the direct funding of abortions, but prohibits the funding of health plans that COVER abortions. My existing health plan violates the amendment.

Not a problem for me personally, since I lack a uterus, but I have a wife and daughter who are both perfectly capable of getting pregnant, and who would both be without access to abortion coverage if it were stripped from my policy.

There's an even worse aspect of this that many of the pro-Stupid morons are ignoring. One of the main middle class selling points to the bill is the claim that the abysmally weak public option will subsidize at least part of your healthcare payments. If the Stupid amendment were to make it into the final bill, millions of Americans would be faced with a simple choice...give up their existing abortion coverage in exchange for government help with their healthcare bill, or continue to slog it out on their own in order to maintain insurance coverage of their reproductive options. It's a lose/lose scenario for every American woman who pays for her own health insurance.