red states rule
09-18-2009, 07:00 AM
Another day - another Obama lie exposed.
Yes, Obamacare will fund abortions
Yes, Obamacare will fund abortions
Supporters liken it to covering pap smears
By Patrick McIlheran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted: 09/07/2009 11:17:16 PM MDT
Obamacare will use tax money to fund abortions. Independent observers confirm it.
The bit of the House's version of health care reform that's supposed to have settled the matter openly says so: Your dollars will provide abortions in the extremes of rape, incest and maternal peril.
Beyond that, it gets interesting. Obamacare probably will use your money to pay for abortions in all other cases -- because the bills don't say that it can't.
Groups favoring abortion's unlimited availability deny this. They say that the bills don't specifically order abortion coverage, that there's a ban on tax-funded abortions now and that U.S. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., has it all figured out.
About that current ban: It's called the Hyde amendment, and it bars Medicaid from funding abortion. It expires annually. President Barack Obama opposes it. Even if it's renewed and survives his veto, it specifically doesn't apply to what Congress proposes.
Some congressmen, notably U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., tried making it apply. All such attempts were rejected, itself a revealing thing. Even Stupak's bid to exclude abortion from required basic benefits failed.
Instead, the House agreed to Capps' "compromise." It explicitly says taxpayers will fund abortion in those extreme cases. As for other abortions, "Nothing in this act shall be construed as preventing the public health insurance option from providing" them.
Whether they will be covered is up to the secretary of health and human services.
That secretary serves a president who, campaigning, said that abortion is "essential" care.
Capps' amendment also says that when the public option cuts a check to an abortionist, it'll come from whatever premiums are paid rather than from what taxpayers threw into the kitty. The fiction of this is transparent in a system in which we're all ladling from a common pot, in which, as Obama says, "I am my sister's keeper."
To accept it, you must believe that your money will remain immaculate by covering a subsidized woman's every other care, freeing her premium to gravitate magically toward her bill at Planned Parenthood.
If that's true, then can women who abhor abortion get a corresponding price break? Don't be silly. It's not really about money. It's about making the government commit.
http://www.coloradodaily.com/your-take/ci_13286788
Yes, Obamacare will fund abortions
Yes, Obamacare will fund abortions
Supporters liken it to covering pap smears
By Patrick McIlheran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted: 09/07/2009 11:17:16 PM MDT
Obamacare will use tax money to fund abortions. Independent observers confirm it.
The bit of the House's version of health care reform that's supposed to have settled the matter openly says so: Your dollars will provide abortions in the extremes of rape, incest and maternal peril.
Beyond that, it gets interesting. Obamacare probably will use your money to pay for abortions in all other cases -- because the bills don't say that it can't.
Groups favoring abortion's unlimited availability deny this. They say that the bills don't specifically order abortion coverage, that there's a ban on tax-funded abortions now and that U.S. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., has it all figured out.
About that current ban: It's called the Hyde amendment, and it bars Medicaid from funding abortion. It expires annually. President Barack Obama opposes it. Even if it's renewed and survives his veto, it specifically doesn't apply to what Congress proposes.
Some congressmen, notably U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., tried making it apply. All such attempts were rejected, itself a revealing thing. Even Stupak's bid to exclude abortion from required basic benefits failed.
Instead, the House agreed to Capps' "compromise." It explicitly says taxpayers will fund abortion in those extreme cases. As for other abortions, "Nothing in this act shall be construed as preventing the public health insurance option from providing" them.
Whether they will be covered is up to the secretary of health and human services.
That secretary serves a president who, campaigning, said that abortion is "essential" care.
Capps' amendment also says that when the public option cuts a check to an abortionist, it'll come from whatever premiums are paid rather than from what taxpayers threw into the kitty. The fiction of this is transparent in a system in which we're all ladling from a common pot, in which, as Obama says, "I am my sister's keeper."
To accept it, you must believe that your money will remain immaculate by covering a subsidized woman's every other care, freeing her premium to gravitate magically toward her bill at Planned Parenthood.
If that's true, then can women who abhor abortion get a corresponding price break? Don't be silly. It's not really about money. It's about making the government commit.
http://www.coloradodaily.com/your-take/ci_13286788