Sure, why not? The Stupak amendment only prevents money authorized or appropriated by government from being used to pay for abortions.
With no public option or medicare expansion, the Stupak amendment is largely beside the point.
In concept, the essence of the government takeover of health care is to require everyone to purchase health care insurance and to require health insurance providers to offer insurance through an "exchange."
A government regulatory body (i.e., a leftwinger or a commission of leftwingers) will provide the details of what the terms and conditions of health care insurance will be in order to be eligible to be offered through an "exchange."
I would be quite surprised if, at that point in time (probably a couple of years away) when the regulators get put in place and propose regulations, that health care insurance offered through the exchange did not include requirements for coverage for abortion, sex-change operations, free condoms, etc. etc.
Since government funds are not being used to purchase insurance through the exchange, the Stupak amendment would not apply.
That's an excellent and obvious point that I missed.
So, ultimately, the “exchange” will be a government puppet that requires private money to fund abortions (by virtue of paying premiums into this “exchange”) instead of money coming direct from the government? All they’re doing is cutting out the middle man then (.gov?), and it’s just tax dollars re-named “mandatory premiums” (and thus obsolete Stupak?)