Virginia Gov. strikes abortion coverage from ObamaCare health exchange

by Peter Smith
Fri Apr 01, 2011
RICHMOND

(LifeSiteNews.com) – Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has amended a bill passed by the General Assembly to prohibit abortion coverage from being offered by health insurance plans hosted by the state’s new health exchange.

The General Assembly had sent to McDonnell’s desk for his approval a measure that would create a state health exchange for qualified health plans by 2014 as mandated by the new national health care reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

The changes proposed by McDonnell ban insurance companies participating in the exchange from offering abortion as a covered benefit, except in situations of rape, incest, and threat to the life of the mother. the rest