A new pro-abortion law took effect in Maine on January 1, preventing private health insurance companies in the state from carrying deductibles or co-pays for abortions.
LD 935, An Act to Remove Barriers to Abortion Coverage in Private Insurance, was signed by pro-abortion Gov. Janet Mills (D) over the summer along with numerous additional pro-abortion bills. It prohibits private insurers from imposing “deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other cost-sharing requirement” for any patient who undergoes an abortion.
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Abortion is not health care
Maine’s law gives abortion priority above other “health care” — but logically, because abortion deliberately kills a human being, it cannot truly be defined as health care despite the propaganda of abortion advocates. Private insurers impose deductibles, co-pays, and coinsurance on families of children with health conditions, and for nearly everything else — but Maine is preventing those same companies from imposing these same types of costs on induced abortion, an entirely elective, life-ending procedure.
Induced abortion is the direct and intentional killing of preborn human beings. Abortion procedures involve depriving a baby of nutrients, suctioning the baby out in pieces, dismembering the baby, or forcing cardiac arrest on the baby. Other violent methods of killing preborn humans exist as well. Health care does not aim to kill. It aims to heal and save. Abortion does this:
Baby Holly was dismembered by a D&E abortion in a Washington DC abortion facility. Photo courtesy of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.
Most abortions are not committed for ‘medical emergencies’
The bill passed the Maine House 75-67 and the Senate 22-12. Rep. Matt Moonen, one of the bill’s sponsors, likened abortion to ’emergency’ care, claiming, “The reality is that few people have the savings to afford a medical emergency, and cost-sharing most severely affects those with the fewest financial resources.”
Induced abortion is not medically necessary, even if the pregnant mother faces a medical emergency. In that case, doctors would perform an emergency C-section or carry out a preterm delivery in order to save the mother. Neither of these procedures are abortions — even if the baby is too young to survive. An induced abortion is the intentional and direct killing of the child. Preterm delivery in an emergency to save the mother is also an attempt to save the child when possible.
Moonen is not forcing insurance companies to rescind copays or deductibles for emergency deliveries like C-sections — only for induced abortions in which the goal is to kill the child. Women who undergo lifesaving procedures will still have to pay.
If by “medical emergency,” Moonen is also referring to a prenatal diagnosis for a child, then his solution for a child diagnosed with a health condition is intentional death and he aims to ensure the parents don’t pay a copay to abort their imperfect child. Rather than mandate that insurers rescind copays and deductibles for actual treatments in the neonatal intensive care unit or for the child’s ongoing medical care, this law and those behind it force insurers to cover copays and deductibles only when the baby is killed.
Women who choose life will still have to pay copays and deductibles.
In addition, most abortions are not carried out during emergencies or for so-called medical reasons. Abortions are committed on healthy women and healthy babies even late into pregnancy in states where it is legal. In 2022, an undercover reporter went to the Washington Surgi-Clinic abortion business at 28 weeks pregnant, and requested an abortion. She and her baby were both healthy and her child was old enough to survive outside the womb. Legally, she would still have been allowed to abort. Under Maine’s new law, a circumstance like this would mean the insurance company would have to cover all of the costs.
The Dupont Clinic website advertises abortion after 26 weeks of pregnancy. “If you are 26 weeks or later into your pregnancy, we can still see you, regardless of your medical history, background, or fetal indications. We do not require any particular ‘reason’ to be seen here – if you would like to terminate your pregnancy, we support you in that decision,” the website states. (emphasis added)
Targeting specific children for abortion
Rep. Moonen also argued that underprivileged women might have to forgo paying rent to pay for an abortion, and therefore, the abortion should be free of cost for them — but in reality, this puts a target on the backs of the preborn children of disadvantaged women.
“For those that need access to abortion, those costs can mean a month’s rent or a car payment,” he said. And yet, the same could be said of people who need cancer treatment, treatment for an injury, emergency surgery for an appendectomy, or who require expensive prescriptions to ensure their survival.
Moonen added, “Scrambling to come up with the extra money for those out-of-pocket costs can cause delays in care, pushing a woman later into pregnancy and potentially further into economic distress. LD 935 will ensure that more Mainers do not struggle to access this most basic of care.”
Yet Maine isn’t helping individuals with “basic care.” Maine is paying to kill preborn human beings. Portraying the intentional killing of one’s preborn child as ‘the most basic of care’ is sheer propaganda. Induced abortion is the direct and intentional killing of an innocent and vulnerable human being as is made obvious in the photos below:
Hand of a 10-week-old aborted child.
Reddit user BackgroundPea7785’s photo of an aborted baby at 9 weeks gestation (enlarged).
Second, incentivizing abortion for women — specifically for financially disadvantaged women — could be construed by some to be discriminatory behavior aimed at pushing women into abortions they don’t want, which is a form of coercion.
Pro-life advocate and Live Action news correspondent Christina Bennett explained in 2020:
[W]omen are coerced into having abortions by their parents, by their partners, by their employers, and by the abortion industry workers, staff, and doctors. And so when you make abortion free [of cost to the client], you’re adding to that encouragement. You’re encouraging abortion when you make it free because, just in general, that’s a sales tactic, making something free. If something is free, you’re going to consider it regardless of what it is.
If someone says, ‘Do you want this? It’s free.’ You’re going to think, ‘Do I want this?’ So, for women who are already vulnerable, already under pressure to abort, it becomes this enticement.
This is true for women facing pressure to abort for a variety of reasons, including financial concerns as well as women who may have received a prenatal diagnosis for their child and are feeling pressured to abort their previously wanted child.
Maine’s pro-abortion political officials seem laser-focused on ensuring more women have abortions. The state also enacted a law, which took effect in October 2023, that allows women to seek an abortion at any time during pregnancy for any reason. Now that LD 935 has taken effect, a woman who has private health insurance in Maine can have an abortion at any time for any reason right up to 40 weeks of pregnancy, at no cost to them.
