NARAL President Nancy Keenan on Abortion and Health Reform

Yesterday came the news that the Senate Finance Committee might include language preventing Exchange-participating insurers from offering coverage for abortions in pursuit of Republican support for overall health care reform. It strikes me as a strange tactical idea because the two Republicans most likely to support reform, Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine are both pro-choice, and that’s all the Republicans you need. But this trial balloon highlights the fact that health care reform is full of angles related to reproductive rights. Dana Goldstein has an enlightening interview with NARAL President Nancy Keenan on this subject in which she warns that “that many, many women could lose the coverage they presently have.”