Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should insurance pay for an elective procedure?

Many pregnancies are elective, yet childbirth is covered.

As are Viagra and the rest of the ED drugs.

Call your inurance company and ask for a copy of your "Schedule of Benefits". Either that or call and ask.

Anonymous wrote:Why should insurance pay for an elective procedure?

Many pregnancies are elective, yet childbirth is covered.

Anonymous wrote:LIVID and others - it's the Hyde Amendment.

And this thread gives me another chance to thank LIVID for turning what must have been a horrible experience for her and her family into an opportunity to attempt to help others.

Thank you.

Thank you! I am livid about this as well.

LIVID here, pp yes you are correct. Abortion in virtually all cases regardless of viability of the pregnancy. It made no difference that my OB said that the pregnancy needed to end now. I might have made it to term only to deliver a baby that was stillborn or that would certainly die shortly thereafter. More likely is that I would have had the baby die in utero at some point down the road and either had to deliver a still born at 26 weeks or whenever it happened.

Anonymous wrote:Question, NP here: wouldn't most of these plans cover much more, cost-wise, if the pregnancy was carried to term? so abortion is really just banned for political reasons?

That's right. 100% political bullshit

Question, NP here: wouldn't most of these plans cover much more, cost-wise, if the pregnancy was carried to term? so abortion is really just banned for political reasons?

LIVID here. Sigh, the things we are made to do just to get proper medical care. Everyone can thank Henry Hyde for this BS. (Thanks PP who gave me the Hyde Amendment, I was having a brain fart) PPs I'm sorry you had to go through that. A good part of my motivation for telling my story here, on Capitol Hill and in the Post was publicity. I figured if I, as someone who had been involved in the pro-choice movement for a long time, didn't realize what my health insurance did and did not cover, many, many other women wouldn't either.

Gay marriage and gay acceptance has been gaining wide acceptance across the country so the wingnuts seem to be doubling down on making abortion so difficult, inconvenient and inaccessible to everyone even when it is medically necessary. Makes me want to spit with rage too.