Conservatives Exploiting Health Care to Deprive Poor Women of Access to Abortion

But while the Obama administration has meekly rolled over for the GOP and the anti-abortion lobby, it's really the state houses that are doing the heavy lifting. As we pointed out previously, state lawmakers from Oklahoma to Missouri are devising novel ways to strip away a woman's right to choose, like forcing them to undergo ultrasounds before an abortion. By far the most effective anti-abortion tactic, though, is to make sure women are too poor to get one. In Virginia, reports NARAL's Tarina Keene, assembly members have approved a bill that would provide state funds for abortion if the woman's health faces substantial endangerment. Again, the sickest and the poorest women are explicitly targeted by this bill--just to save the state roughly $150,000.