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Kevin Drum of Mother Jones gently pushes back at what’s effectively becoming a feminist ethnic slur before asking a really, really critical question about insurer’s reaction to the thuggish anti-abortion amendment in Saturday night’s House healthcare reform bill.

God knows we liberal dudes can be clueless sometimes, but are any of us really saying that this is no big deal?  That’s hard to believe.  What I can imagine us saying is that Bart Stupak had the votes and we didn’t.  That’s a huge problem.  But not a big deal?  Hardly.

On a related note, I wonder what the insurance industry thinks of this?  I know that if I were an insurance company, I’d sure rather cover an abortion (cost = $500 or so) than a pregnancy carried to term (cost = $10,000 or so).  But they’re probably too scared to speak up.

He said it here.

I’m tempted to digress and point out that that would be $10,000 for a routine pregnancy with no complications. The million or so c-sections a performed a year cost considerably more. Not even counting perpetual care the cost for treating a woman for a stroke from preeclampsia from an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy can quickly top $100,000.

Instead I’ll just say that there are procedures that have been used all year to obstruct assess the cost of various measures. So let’s start by asking the CBO to score Stupak’s hateful thuggery.