The House is about to socialize your medicine, and your life.

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Originally Posted by hi_im_god

that's inaccurate.

the amendment prohibits any government funded insurance plan from paying for an abortion. it has no effect on the private insurance market.

even plans that depend partially on government funding could offer riders for abortion coverage which you would pay for without assistance from any federal government source..

We need a third source. Not what I read regarding private insurance, or your ability to buy private plans, but that may have something to do with pools.

Edit: did some searching, and it does involve the exchanges - insurance companies will have to offer the same plan with and without abortion coverage in the exchanges, and as nearly all people in the exchanges will receive some insurance credits, so those people will not be able to purchase any policy with abortion included, thus the companies probably won't even offer it in the exchange pools. If you want to purchase it privately (if it is even offered to you in the exchange) that means that you must anticipate in advance you might need an elective abortion (??!! are they kidding?) Women whose employers purchase insurance through the exchanges will not be able to purchase policies that provide coverage for abortion.

In other words, it appears that only women who purchase their own private insurance policies, entirely outside any exchanges (the most expensive available) will be able to get coverage.

Abortion is legal. This amendment was a back-door pro-life circumvention of a legal right, that sets women's rights back decades if it sticks around.