A two-day stay is both medically sensible and cost efficient. But many insurers, focused on short-term profit, rejected the idea. Similar logic is at work regarding contraceptive drugs. They greatly reduce unwanted pregnancies. According to Sen. Henry, about half of all pregnancies are unintended, and more than half of those end with abortion.
Contraception is certainly preferable to abortion as belated birth control.
Making sure that women have access to birth control would benefit their families and the larger society that eventually bears the cost of raising far too many unwanted children. It also would reduce the number of abortions, a clear benefit. There are those who oppose contraception on moral and religious grounds. But the greater social good achieved though requiring that contraceptive drugs be available overrides those concerns. Costs also will go up if Senate Bill 87 passes.