Will Obama Health Care Plan Cover Late-Term Abortions?

Barack Obama's health care proposals "would require insurance companies to cover routine treatments like vaccines and mammograms":

John McCormack asks if the Obama plan goes beyond mandating coverage for "routine treatments," but would require insurance companies to pay for abortions, including third-trimester procedures:

Following a speech to Planned Parenthood in July 2007, Obama made a controversial pledge to require private insurers to cover abortions. He said:

In my mind reproductive care is essential care. It is basic care, and so it is at the center, the heart of the plan that I propose. …

we’re going to set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they don’t have health insurance. It’ll be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services...

We also will subsidize those who prefer to stay in the private insurance market except the insurers are going to have to abide by the same rules in terms of providing comprehensive care, including reproductive care.

Just in case there's any doubt that Obama's reference to "reproductive services" meant that he intends to mandate coverage for abortion, the Chicago Tribune's Mike Dorning reported after the speech:

Asked about his proposal for expanded access to health insurance, Obama said it would cover "reproductive-health services." Contacted afterward, an Obama spokesman said that included abortions.

Obama has not been perfectly clear on his support for the Supreme Court's broadly defined "health exception" that permits third trimester abortions “in the light of all factors--physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age--relevant to the wellbeing of the patient.”

McCormack contacted the Obama campaign to determine if the Obama health plan would mandate insurance coverage of all legal abortions, including "partial birth" abortions:

He's still waiting for a response, but because we know that Obama - aka Senator Infanticide - is the most extreme left-winger on abortion in America, it's not surprising that the campaign's not provided a definitive answer to the inquiry.