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RNC’S INSURANCE PLAN COVER’S ELECTIVE ABORTIONS

Poor Michael Steele. The Republican National Committee chairman is less than a year into his term and he just can’t seem to get things right.

First, Steele got into a very public spat with conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The he agreed that President Barack Obama is “the magic negro” and told GQ magazine that women have a “right to choose abortion.”

Steele also launched as awful RNC website last month and just this week came under fire for saying that white Republicans are afraid of black people.

And now, this:

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. [...]

According to several Cigna employees, the insurer offers its customers the opportunity to opt out of abortion coverage – and the RNC did not choose to opt out. [The Politico]

Oh boy.

Steele’s team said the coverage predates his chairmanship, but they obviously haven’t changed the plan or switched providers.

Ironically, Steele gave a speech in Michigan Thursday saying that it’s important that the federal government doesn’t pay for abortions.

Steele, of course, narrowly defeated former South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson for the RNC post. He was aided in that effort by Palmetto State political consultant Jim Dkye.

Dyke was paid nearly $60,000 to get Steele elected, and unfortunately for the Republican Party, he recorded a rare victory in that race. And yes, that’s the same Jim Dyke who apparently goes after opponents by doctoring Facebook screen shots.