Reply #4: They are creating a deliberate two-step to make abortions impossible to get..

[ThomCat]

The only real doubt is how soon they start pushing this, and how open they are about their reasons why.

First, no government funded or subsidized insurance can pay for abortions. This bullshit means that only women with significant amounts of discretionary money on hand will have access to abortions, especially in tough times. That bars the vast majority of women right there.

Then, because it will be mandated that everyone must have insurance, and billing will need to be streamlined, the next step will be that providers can only accept payment through that streamlined billing. You can only use your insurance to get services. No more cash for medical services unless you are very rich and have very private access to medical care. That will mean abortions not covered by insurance can't be procured at all, anywhere.

Finding a doctor who will still provide services outside of contracts will become something valuable reserved for wealthy people who can pay any price and travel anywhere.

For everyone else abortions will become totally unavailable. Gone. Impossible to get regardless of whether or not it is legal.

I guarantee that the streamlining billing is going to be a major issue. It necessarily has to be. Then, forcing people to only accept payments through this streamlined billing will be the obvious tactic for anti-choicers to use. There are all kinds of fake but convincing sounding tax and reporting reasons why they might claim that everything has to be paid through centralized insurance billing, getting rid of cash services.