Are abortions covered in the health care insurance Congress has?????

[Are_grits_groceries]

Inquiring minds want to know so that they can blast out enough messages to cripple the Interwebs about it if they do.

[wishlist]

1. No, only in cases of incest or rape or endangerment of mothers life

I just read the Blue Cross Federal plans booklet to verify that abortions are covered but only in cases of rape, incest or endangerment of mother's life if pregnancy were to go to term.

[FLyellowdog]

7. I am sick to death of this abortion crap!

It's an abortion REGARDLESS OF THE REASON FOR HAVING ONE!!!! If people are against abortion because it "kills/murders a baby/fetus" then it is no less killing or murdering even in the case of rape, incest, or to save the mother. It's still an abortion.

At this stage of the discussion, one is either for abortion or not. Yes or no. The reason for having an abortion doesn't make any difference. The difficulty comes ONLY if one is FOR abortion and then one has to decide at which point during gestation is it too late (too wrong) to have the abortion.

I am for a woman's right to choose...abortion is a medical and a personal issue, but what the Republicans and Blue Dogs and Pro-life people seem to want to do is have it both ways. An abortion by any other name (or reason) is still an abortion. If one approves of abortion in cases of rape, incest, or to save the mother, then those same people are not Pro-Lifers. They favor abortion. They just don't want to admit that it has to be under "their" set of rules. IT'S STILL ABORTION!!!!

:grr:

[MissMarple]

8. God aborts babies every day. Well, not babies, actually.

It is fairly common up until about three months, and still happens after. Should I ask my congress critter to have God locked up or ask him instead to stop practicing medicine with out a license? Such a dilemma. :shrug:

[FLyellowdog]

10. Yes.

What's fair for the goose is fair for the god...or whoever.

[Ocracoker16]

2. Nope

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. Thanks for letting me know. nt

[ET Awful]

4. If a congressperson used their salary to pay for an abortion, does that count as a federally

funded abortion?

[enlightenment]

5. Probably not.

A salary is payment for services rendered (which leads to another topic entirely, but . . .)

Federal monies 'given' to subsidize insurance premiums are a different kettle of fish.

[Luminous Animal]

6. A restriction imposed by Republicans.

Who, of course, do not include affordable access to abortion in their party platform.

[KansDem]

9. Oral contraceptives (and BC in general) are covered in the fed's BCBS and Aetna plans...

One supposes they'll be covered in H.R.3962.

I wonder if Catholic Bishops who Pelosi conferred with had anything to say about that.