The Stupak Amendment- Insurance Claims Become Pro-Life

A new amendment was passed Saturday. The Stupak Amendment which Newsweek is quoted saying, “the amendment aims to prevent federal funds from being used to procure abortions, following current federal policy that bans Medicaid from offering elective abortions.” The article continues on saying that on most insurance claims it is almost impossible to separate federal funds and private funds. This will make it difficult to file an insurance claim to fund an abortion procedure.
It can only be speculated as to how this will affect many areas of society including the overall abortion rates, and crime rates.
By essentially making it harder to fund an abortion it should ultimately lessen the demand. As discussed in the novel “Freakanomics” economist have collected data and run analysis relating crime rates and abortion rates around 1973 when Roe v Wade was decided. There is data correlation to support the idea that the legalization of abortion lowered crimes rates. If this theory is upheld then with a lower demand to have an abortion we should see a rise in crime rates.  This will ultimately have a large effect on the overall being of our society, and in it self is kind of ironic. The main argument for pro-life supporters is to save a life, but if the correlation is true are we just endangering the lives of others?


http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/11/10/will-liberals-draw-the-line-on-abortion-probably-not.aspx