Oregon Set to Pass Free Funding of Abortions

[Indy Texas]

If one is medically necessary, of course your health insurance should pay for it - just like they would any other medically necessary procedure.

But while I support people's right to choose to have an abortion, the very fact that it is a choice 99% of the time - that is, not necessary - is why it's ridiculous to mandate insurers pay for all abortions.

We might as well mandate coverage for nose jobs and breast implants.

[Indy Texas]

If one is medically necessary, of course your health insurance should pay for it - just like they would any other medically necessary procedure.

But while I support people's right to choose to have an abortion, the very fact that it is a choice 99% of the time - that is, not necessary - is why it's ridiculous to mandate insurers pay for all abortions.

We might as well mandate coverage for nose jobs and breast implants.

Read these two sentences you typed in the same post very slowly back to back.

Do you really not think there's maybe even a teensy difference in medical necessity between most abortions and rhinoplasty/boob jobs?

More to the point, isn't there just the slightest difference in the effect on one's life between having an unwanted child to raise vs. not being able to upgrade to a D cup?

The government being involved in family planning is hardly an abstract act of frippery.

Having a child you don't want is a terrible thing, but it isn't a medical problem. That isn't what medical insurance is for.

If the government wants to be involved in family planning, then the government should set aside money to fund abortions for indigent women who can't pay for it themselves. Don't shove it onto private insurance companies.

[Indy Texas]

Most women who have abortions have abortions because they want abortions, yes, that's true. Sort of a stupid and obvious thing to point out though.

A lot of women have abortions though. It's not a tiny number. Most of them are not medically necessary. Most are financial, even if they are financial though, they are still elective.

I support the right to elective abortion but we need to be honest about it.

Abortions are common, don't try to mislead people otherwise. Poor women do not have to have abortions. Our welfare system is designed specifically to benefit women with children. A lot of poor women actually have their financial standing improved by having children.

This is a right-wing myth. The only way this is true is if they live in a state where Medicaid is restricted to people with dependent children, in which case she could get health coverage after having kids but not before. But it's highly unlikely that the value of those benefits would ever exceed the cost of raising children.