Oops, RNC's Cigna Health Insurance Covers Abortions

It appears that the Republican National Committee is hastily conducting a revision of their medical coverage. I normally try to avoid writing about stupid things, but the Republican Party just keeps on giving.  A reporter called the RNC Wednesday and asked if their health insurance covered abortions. Yep, they do. RNC Chairman Michael Steele is now running around like Chicken Little trying to fix the embarrassment. It seems that the RNC has had abortion coverage since 1991, and gee, nobody knew about it, or least anybody that would not use it didn't know about it. How could this possibly happen in the party that forces you to sign an "I shall not get an abortion" oath to be a party leader? He’s calling for an executive committee review of the insurance policy immediately. Here’s the story from ABC News:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/rnc-planning-immediate-review-of-its-abortion-coverage.html

The Stupak Amendment to the House Health Bill bans all abortions in the exchange pool policies, and was voted for unanimously by all the Republicans in the House. Oh the disgrace, now the RNC has to scrub the coverage from their own health insurance policy. Michael Steele will sweep this elephant (no pun intended) under the rug in no time. I guess as long as he eliminates it from their policy quickly, in the first trimester of a three day old story, it mitigates the shame of having the coverage for 18 years.

Speed is really important, someone might get pregnant any day and want to use it, although it would appear she would be shunned and have to change parties now. Opps, that won’t work either, pregnancy is a pre-existing condition… I wonder if their policy covers lobotomies? Call’em and ask.