The Wall Street Journal said that states and abortion opponents are looking at a provision of the legislation on health care enabling States to prevent the plans offered by exchanges managed by the government to cover abortion procedures at all. This would only affect residents in states that choose not to offer the procedures in trade.
Senator Alan Nunnelee of Mississippi will introduce legislation similar to later in the month. He believes that the language of the federal government in the bill are not strict enough to ensure that public funds are not used to pay for abortions.
Currently, five states have laws that prohibit health insurance plans to cover all abortions with few exceptions now and Kansas will be the introduction of the Act this year.
There are already twelve states that have laws that ban abortion for the insurance plans of state employees and three other states have simply introduced bills.
The national debate on health insurance reform has sparked a debate on abortion coverage in insurance plans. groups and health insurance companies seem to remain neutral on the issue. Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for Health Insurance Plans America, said "it is up to policymakers to decide. "And a WellPoint Inc. spokesman said the company complies with the regulations and will continue to.
The reform of health care may have settled the issues related to health insurance for the future but no questions on abortion.
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