He did not have to allow for non-medically necessary abortions, but his plan allowed for elective abortions. He also had a Planned Parenthood person on the board to oversee the plan, but no pro-life person was asked.
So far as I can tell reading the plan, the abortion services are covered by the plan’s prohibition against any procedures that are not medically necessary.
I’ve asked posters who claim otherwise to help me out by pointing to the section of the plan that says abortion services are exempt from the “medically necessary” clause, but nobody has.
Maybe you could tell me where it is?
There’s been a lot of misinformation about the plan, and this idea that abortions weren’t covered by the “medically necessary” restriction could well be one of them.
I would have liked to have had a pro-lifer from an abortion-alternative medical clinic be on the board, but frankly we don’t have a national organization of medical clinic representatives like Planned Parenthood has, and that puts us at a disadvantage.
Planned Parenthood runs women’s medical clinics that provide millions of dollars of services covered by medical insurance (abortions are part of that, but 97% of the planned parenthood business is non-abortion).
That means Planned Parenthood unfortunately gets a seat in almost every state medical board. I’d love to see us figure out how to counter that.