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Political conservatives talk constantly about their desire to make government smaller. The less government the better, they say. Get the government out of our lives, they say. Cut regulations and let the free market have its way, they say. Except, it seems, when it comes to abortion.<\/p>\n

Did you know that eight states have banned private insurance companies<\/a>\u00a0from covering abortion in the policies they sell?<\/p>\n

Bans on insurance coverage of abortion didn\u2019t really became a thing until recently. The vast majority of private\u00a0insurance plans\u00a0covered abortion, as they would any common medical procedure, and no made any fuss about it. But then the debate over health care reform happened\u00a0and ultimately\u00a0opened up the possibility for states to ban all abortion coverage in the new health exchanges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, as expected, many states have\u00a0seized on that opportunity<\/a>, extending the bans to private insurance as well.\u00a0At least 21 states have passed legislation to stop\u00a0insurance companies\u00a0from paying for abortion; in 8 states, no one can get a plan that covers the procedure.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s not exactly small government, is it? That\u2019s not exactly about cutting regulations and letting the free market have its way, is it?\u00a0In fact, that looks an awful lot like government interference in the activities of private companies.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard about all those transvaginal ultrasound bills, right? Well Indiana has taken it to the next level. There\u2019s a new bill moving through its legislature<\/a> that would require women seeking the abortion pill to have two<\/em> transvaginal ultrasounds.<\/p>\n

What makes Indiana really stand out, though, is that this bill,\u00a0SB 371<\/a>, would require\u00a0two\u00a0<\/em>ultrasounds\u2014before\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0after the abortion. The bill would require physicians to \u201cschedule a follow-up appointment\u201d two weeks after RU-486 is administered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wouldn\u2019t doctors know best when it comes to medical care for their own patients? In fact, the bill actually states that a doctor who does not do enough to make sure his or her patient returns for the later post-abortion ultrasound will be guilty of a crime and liable for arrest\u2014regardless of the fact that current medical practice does not even deem this second ultrasound necessary in the first place. Since when is this small government?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This Indiana bill also requires abortion clinics to have hallways of specific dimensions and requires clinics that give out the abortion pill but do not perform surgical abortions to have the capacities for performing surgical abortions anyway. Isn\u2019t this more government regulation? Whatever happened to cutting red tape?<\/em><\/p>\n

And don\u2019t think this is just Indiana. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s Virginia, and Texas, and dozens of other states too. Political conservatives talk on and on about the importance of small government, the importance of allowing the individual to make her own decision, and the problems with government regulation. But when it comes to abortion, they don\u2019t give a sh*t about any of that.<\/em> When it comes to abortion, it doesn\u2019t matter what kind of insurance private companies want to offer their clients, or what individual doctors believe is best for their patients.<\/p>\n

The truth is, when it comes to abortion, political conservatives toss their small government and anti-regulation rhetoric and embrace big, intrusive government and absolutely debilitating levels of red tape.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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