Provisions within the Affordable Care Act will reduce accidental pregnancies that are at a higher risk to be aborted. With the increased availability of no cost contraception for women, pregnancies will be planned and abortions reduced. In addition, the financial uncertainties of carrying a pregnancy to term will also be reduced as all health plans will cover maternity benefits.
Obamacare is pro-life, family friendly
There has possibly been no federal legislation that will do more to reduce abortions, with out criminalizing the procedure, than Obamacare. A pregnancy prevented is an abortion averted. People and churches that are passionate about preventing abortions should support the Affordable Care Act. Since they will never be able to proselytize all women and men to lead a chaste life style, pro-life groups should at least support resources that directly avoid the abortions they seek to prevent.
Health insurance excluded maternity coverage
Rainbow bulls eye on the pregnant belly.
For too long, insurance companies have been able to lobby and “campaign contribution bribe” state legislatures into not requiring health insurance to cover maternity benefits. Countless, women have become pregnant only to find that the health insurance they purchased had no maternity coverage. The second engineered hammer of denial fell when the woman found out that being pregnant was a pre-existing condition and precluded her from getting a new health policy that actually covered maternity.
Babies can be expensive
Women delivering their babies at a hospital may find it expensive. When you consider pre-natal check-ups, giving birth in a hospital environment, and follow-up doctor visits to check on mother and child, maternity can easily ring up to $5,000. If there are complications with the delivery or the baby needs special treatment or care, families may receive hospital and doctor bills exceeding $25,000. Is it a family friendly policy to allow insurance companies to exclude maternity benefits and bankrupt a young family before they even get started?
Personal responsibility
Many of those opposed to Obamacare cite the numerous programs for pregnant women and newborns. Yes, those programs are all paid for with tax payer money and the women may have had health insurance that didn’t cover maternity. Isn’t it better for young families to take the responsibility of having a health plan that covers maternity so they never have to use tax payer funded programs of last resort?
Mom: “I’ve got a baby”. Dad: “Ay Carumba, how am I going to pay for this?”
Family friendly support
Young families just starting out have enough issues to juggle. Health insurance that lessens the financial risks and helps ease the burden of unexpected maternity costs is family friendly and gives these young families a better shot of creating a sustainable family unit. Obamacare helps fill in the unexpected financial pot holes so families can focus on the family and not on the soul crushing debt of having a baby.
Abortions reduced
Under Obamacare, couples will never be surprised that their health insurance won’t help cover and limit their expenses from having a baby because maternity coverage is one of the 10 essential health benefits. Contraception will be provided at no cost so family planning is put in the hands of the couple. The Affordable Care Act is pro-life and family friendly because it mandates that women and couples will be shielded from excessive medical bills associated with the birth of their children and it will reduce abortions by making contraception widely available to all women enrolled in a health plan.