So I'm reading this blah-blah about abortion coverage, and here's what strikes me: buying abortion insurance sounds like a scam.

I mean, really, how many abortions is the average woman gonna have?  It's $400-800 for a first-trimester abortion (according to the story).  Considering there are all kinds of ways to avoid getting pregnant (pill, condoms, pill+condom, being a lesbian, etc) you'd think that most women are never going to need one.

The scary NARAL woman (who, sadly, I thought was a Narwhal until I read the story more closely) makes it sound like this could strike a woman at any time, but I find this hard to believe.

To listen to talk shows, most women can't even find a good man, much less get pregnant so often that they need abortion insurance.

It reminds me of the life insurance they try to sell you for your kids.  This is also a scam; your kids are probably not going to die, so the money is a waste.

Or the long-term-care insurance they want to sell to you when you're 20.  The chance you're going to get vegetablized is pretty low, so that money is a waste.

What's abortion insurnace cost as a rider, something like 10 bucks a month?  Then in four or five years, you could have saved the money for an abortion .  If you didn't get one, then you pocketed the money.  Good for you!

The only women who would get any use out of this would be women who use abortion as their primary birth control.  And I don't think there are a lot of women who do that.  I mean, there might be, but serial abortions have their own health toll, don't they?

As for abortions when the health of the mother is at risk: I think these are probably covered by every single insurance plan ever considered, aren't they?  I mean, nobody's talking about not covering that, are they?  That's just no in the argument right now.

The reason I care is that I have to pay for this under a public option, and I don't want to.  Not 'cause I've got some hard-on against abortion, but because I don't want the free health insurance to have all sorts of great add-ons and riders that nobody needs, like massage insurance or "aura therapy" or any of that crap. 

And abortion insurance sounds like one of those things.

Posted by: plebian at 04:57 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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