Planned Parenthood CEO Wants Your Insurance Premiums to Fund Abortions
Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson urged health insurance providers to become abortion advocates and offer elective abortion coverage without deductibles during a convention over the weekend in Portland, Oregon.
Johnson, who runs the billion-dollar abortion chain, praised companies for offering abortion travel benefits after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. But she said more needs to be done to expand abortions, Med City News reports.
“It’s a fairly normal medical common experience that people have to navigate and manage …” Johnson told the news outlet.
She estimated one in four women will choose to have an abortion in their lifetime, continuing: “What that number does is it kind of demonstrates the wide range of reasons [people seek abortions] and the very reason why we should not be involved in making decisions on behalf of people because they understand their circumstances personally.”
Johnson said she wants society to view abortion as “normal” health care.
Speaking at the AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) 2023 conference, the Planned Parenthood CEO urged insurance providers to join the pro-abortion movement. And she said they can begin by covering abortions without deductibles in their health care plans, according to the report.
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Most health insurance plans do not cover elective, unnecessary procedures, but Johnson wants companies to make an exception for abortion — even though abortions kill unborn babies and tens of thousands of doctors confirm they are not health care. Notably, Johnson was speaking about adding elective abortion coverage; health insurance plans already cover essential medical care for miscarriages, which sometimes are referred to as spontaneous abortions, and life-threatening pregnancy conditions like ectopic pregnancy.
Here’s more from the report:
Insurers can use their influence to help lawmakers understand the impact of their actions, and hold “states accountable for the kind of public health information that they are offering so that they can make decisions” on supporting reproductive health benefits, she added. …
While people have differing views when it comes to reproductive health, providing access to these kinds of healthcare benefits is vital considering 60% of college students are female and will be looking for places to build a future, McGill Johnson said. Further, 61% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
Actually, reproductive health care is not controversial. Most Americans support normal reproductive medicine, including routine OB-GYN exams, infertility care, birth control, cancer screenings and more. But abortions are not reproductive health care. They occur post-reproduction and they intentionally and unnecessarily kill unborn babies, which is not health care.
Johnson was wrong about most Americans supporting abortions, too. Poll results vary depending on the questions, but, when asked about specific abortion policy, polls consistently show a strong majority of Americans support limits on abortion, especially after the first trimester or once the baby’s heartbeat is detectable. LifeNews highlighted 25 recent polls showing Americans support protections for unborn babies.
In contrast, Planned Parenthood supports abortions for “any reason” up to birth, including sex-selection abortions. Last year, it killed 374,155 unborn babies in abortions while receiving more than $670 million in tax dollars.
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