Stupak Amendment Could End Abortion Coverage — For Everyone
OPS_admin | Nov 18, 2009 | Comments 0
A little over a week ago, Democrats bent over backwards to appease conservatives in the House by adding the Stupak-Pitt amendment to the health care bill. The amendment imperils access to abortion — a reproductive freedom affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1973 — by making it illegal for women to use government insurance plans to cover costs associated with an abortion.
And there is more bad news for women: a George Washington University study released this week indicates that the Stupak amendment could have serious implications for industry-wide coverage of medically-indicated abortions.
But if the GWU study is correct, the Stupak amendment would not simply affect women under the public insurance option — it would affect women covered by private insurance plans, too:
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