Get your abortions at the RNC

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Hypocrisy, thy name is... oh, this is just too easy:

The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party's own platform calls "a fundamental assault on innocent human life."

Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC's policy covers elective abortion.

The RNC is apparently "taking steps to address the issue."

Let me just say that insurance plans should cover abortion. It's obviously not the Cigna plan I object to, it's the hypocrisy. And, in a way, it's just like Republicans in Congress enjoying the best health care money can buy while essentially denying even basic coverage to millions and millions of Americans. Ideology is strong, but, for Republicans, self-interest at the expense of others, and even at the expense of one's own principles, seems to rule.