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From Fem­i­nist­ing:

A new study from the George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity School of Pub­lic Health and Health Ser­vices reports that “the Stupak/Pitts Amend­ment will have an industry-wide effect, elim­i­nat­ing cov­er­age of med­ically indi­cated abor­tions over time for all women, not only those whose cov­er­age is derived through a health insur­ance exchange.”

Brian at TPMDC writes:

In other words, though the imme­di­ate impact of the Stu­pak amend­ment will be lim­ited to the mil­lions of women ini­tially insured through a new insur­ance exchange, over time, as the exchanges grow, the insur­ance indus­try will scale down their abor­tion cov­er­age options until they offer none at all.

Do peo­ple not under­stand that abor­tions will remain legal and avail­able even if this change occurs in the insur­ance indus­try? And that third-party pay­ments for abor­tions have prob­a­bly dri­ven the prices up? And that if every­one who wanted an abor­tion were choos­ing her own provider and pay­ing out of pocket, then the price of the pro­ce­dure would prob­a­bly drop? And maybe even it would be cheaper to just pay for an abor­tion than to buy a pol­icy that cov­ers abortions?

Just sayin’.