Reply #170: Do you honestly think.... [View All]

[Tx4obama]

Do you honestly think that there is a large percentage of abortions being paid by insurance?
The answer is NO.
First of all, insurance policies have deductibles which are normally pretty high, whereas an abortion runs between $350 to $900 dollars - much less than the average deductible.
Besides most women pay for abortions 'out of their pocket' due to privacy reasons.
And if you think the the 'poor' of America are getting free abortions from insurance companies that they can't even afford to purchase a policy from then that is just nuts.

You do not need to be rich to pay for an abortion.
And the prohibitions on the insurance companies that choose to participate in the 'exchange' are not not going to affect THE RIGHT OF A WOMAN TO HAVE AN ABORTION.

Stupak has NOTHING to do with "the RIGHT of a woman to have an abortion" - it is an INSURANCE COVERAGE issue - TWO very different things.

Women have a RIGHT to an abortion if that is what they decided to do.
Women DO NOT have a 'right' for federal dollars, tax-payer dollars, and federal subsidies to fund them.