Mandrina pointed out that PP will take insurance. That was sort of my point. Once (if) everybody is supposed to have insurance, the insurance would cover that stuff. At that point though, does PP need federal funding (outside of Medicare / aid) to provide services such as Pap, mammorgram?
At that point does PP funding become almost exclusively for abortion services? How much of the current funding is broadly labeled as for women's heath where Pap, mammogram, birth control pills / devices & aborton services are all legitimately women's health?
And once women have more access to ob-gyns who are not part of PP, will more of them go there? (although I wonder how many ob-gyns do very early abortions, with little to no publicity, for existing patients as a D&C?)
There's something else here. The GOP is bound and determined to cut funding NOW for PP. The mandate, etc, isn't going to kick in until 2014. That's three years. How many women will end up with advanced stage breast/cervical cancer during that three year period? How many will die?
Oh yeah. I forgot. It doesn't matter.
(And yeah. I'm bitter and pissed.)
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