Reply #84: We can defend both.

[wickerwoman]

Women *need* to be able to get abortions for a number of reasons, including medical, financial, psychological and social reasons.

A blanket ban on providing insurance to women who need abortions also covers situations where it is simply fucking cruel not to the let the woman get an abortion such as when she knows she is carrying a dead fetus.

The point is that there are any number of reasons why a woman might need to get an abortion and it is not the business of government to investigate those reasons. Using the strongest possible example would seem to make the case more persuasively, but it doesn't change the fundamental argument that nobody except the woman herself should be making the decision about this procedure.