The Washington Examiner has argued that Section 1334 of Obamacare is the public option because it gives the Office of Personnel Management power to sign no-bid contracts with two health-insurance issuers, at least one of which must be a non-profit (hello, Blue Cross).

As I read further in Section 1334, though, I found a reference to “services described in section 1303(b)(1)(B)(i).” But there is no such section in the law. There is a section 1303(a)(1)(B)(i) that deals with “Abortions for which public funding is prohibited.”

The implications of this confusion are not very promising for pro-life insurance consumers. As it is, in the bill signed by the president, there is no guarantee that any federally contracted insurance options will not cover abortion.

– Joseph D. Coletti is director of health and fiscal policy studies at the John Locke Foundation.