They want rights. Let’s give ’em rights. Pro-aborts, including lobbyists from Planned Parenthood, have been arguing that abortion is a right.
You know, how liberals make up rights all the time like the right to healthcare and the right to an abortion. Well let’s take them at their word for a moment. OK. Done. Abortion’s a right just like healthcare.
Let’s look at what happens when someone who can’t afford healthcare needs healthcare. They go to the Emergency Room which by law cannot turn away anyone. The hospital is then burdened with paying for their care. How does the hospital make up for their loss? They charge insured patients more money to compensate and the cost goes up. Way up.
Now if the right to an abortion is as absolute as the right to healthcare in general, wouldn’t it be odd if they got their wish. Let’s tell abortion clinics that they have to provide services to all regardless of their ability to pay just as we do to hospitals.
And then we can sit back and watch them all go broke from folks coming in demanding free abortions.
I know that wouldn’t happen because the Democrats would subsidize them because Big Abortion is just too evil to fail.
December 10, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Years ago, my very pro-life mother said, only partly in jest, that the best way to stop abortion would be to pass a law requiring all abortions to be done free of charge. That way, no one would make any money from it, and abortion clinics would immediately go out of business.
In recent years Medicaid providers in my state have been saddled with longer and longer payment delays, as long as 6 to 9 months, which prompted many doctors, clinics, etc. to stop taking such patients and caused some private nursing homes and mom and pop pharmacies to close. This got me to wondering (during one of my more cynical moments) if pro-lifers wouldn't have done better to have passed a "reverse" Hyde Amendment requiring ALL abortions to be paid for by Medicaid… there would have been no better way to drive abortion clinics out of business!
Elaine
December 10, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Seriously, though, given the fact that most abortions aren't covered by insurance, the price is pretty low compared to other surgical procedures (usually around $300 to $400, from what I have heard; by comparision, my dentist is talking about $1,200 for a root canal). To mandate that it BE covered by insurance could prove to be a very effective way of driving the price up, and eventually making it unaffordable for everyone.
Also, open up abortion providers to malpractice suits and state/federal regulation, insist that they carry malpractice insurance, and watch them flee the "profession" like cockroaches from a kitchen light…
Perhaps the pro-aborts should be careful what they wish for– they might get it.
I'm absolutely NOT in favor of any of this, mind you, but just looking at a number of different ways in which the enshrinement of abortion as a healthcare "right" could prove to be self-destructive to the abortion industry in the long run.
Elaine
December 10, 2009 at 3:36 pm
God is very crafty – even when we think we have lost, He can bring good from evil. So keep praying, voting, writing those Congressmen and Senators and perservering!