Reply #52: During the Clinton years, Federal employee policies WERE allowed to cover abortion

[katandmoon]

Clinton restored that coverage following the Reagan/Bush I years. Bush II immediately rescinded it.

Obama has not restored it as far as I have been able to discover. (If you are a federally employed woman who gets pregnant and doesn't want to be, you must pay for your abortion yourself. If of course you get pregnant and DO want to be, the rest of us WILL help you pay for THAT.)

But from early 1992 - early 2000, the health insurance plans which Federal employees chose among, either when they were first hired or during the "open season" every November, WERE allowed to cover abortion.

And I don't recall that ever even being an issue. Of course the internet didn't really exist in 1992 and I didn't move in anti-choice circles.