Dems' Health Care Reform Plans Would Include Abortion Coverage

[andrewjs18]

That's right...tax payers will be paying for abortions.......does anyone else have a real problem with this? I sure as hell do...I'm not wanting to pay for someone elses mistake! Why should I have to pay for someone else to abort their kid when they weren't practicing safe sex?

I definitely wouldn't expect anyone to pay for an abortion of my child if that ever came about (I'm against abortion, but am in favor of it in a few circumstances).

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156578.php

Dems' Health Care Reform Plans Would Include Abortion Coverage

As lawmakers work to pass health reform legislation, "few are talking about" the "essential question" of whether "health reform will force taxpayers to pay for abortions for the first time in 30 years," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins writes in a Washington Times opinion piece. According to Perkins, "the short answer is yes" because there is no "explicit provision" in any Democratic health plan that would "[p]revent taxpayer funding of abortions as part of the health care benefit Congress is considering"; avert "delays in health care services that result in the death of the patient waiting for care"; or allow health care providers "to refuse to participate in health care-related action that violates their conscience." Perkins continues that the House's reform proposal would provide federal coverage for "'family planning,' the well-worn buzz word that includes abortion unless specified to the contrary." He adds that "it would be naive to assume, unless there is an explicit prohibition in the bill, that [HHS] Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will not use her discretion to fund abortions with taxpayers' money." Perkins also writes that the Democratic reform plans, "in short, ... attempt to be silent on the key question of whether or not to allow the U.S. government to fund abortions with taxpayers' money," and also give the HHS secretary "the power to allow taxpayer-funded abortions."

He writes, "The Family Research Council's answer is clear: There must be a permanent prohibition on taxpayer-funded abortions," as well as "provision to allow a right of conscience for doctors and nurses and other health care providers" to refuse to participate in treatments they oppose. He adds that "there can be no system of denial or delay or rationing of care." Perkins concludes, "Euthanasia by any other name is a poison pill in the health reform debate" (Perkins, Washington Times, 7/5)

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[archangel689]

The government decides what is right and what is wrong, not you.

The inherent failure with Socialist Governments: in failing to recognize a moral duty to respect the individual (the individual existing for the benefit of the collective), the individual has no moral duty to respect the Government

[andrewjs18]

The government decides what is right and what is wrong, not you.

The inherent failure with Socialist Governments: in failing to recognize a moral duty to respect the individual (the individual existing for the benefit of the collective), the individual has no moral duty to respect the Government

I'll be giving my rep. an ear full soon.

I'd hate to be Rep. Youngblood in Philadelphia, because I just gave Caa2003's Dad her contact info so he can vent his frustrations to her and her office....

[camper]

LOL...like anyone expected anything less.

camper

[Bug44]

Oh The Messiah won’t fail us! Everything he preaches HAS to be the truth!!! He would never lead us astray from the truth, and foundations of our forefathers.

(Cough) Anti (Cough) Christ (Cough)

[Morel42]

I realize that I am risking what little shread of a soul that I have with saying this but..


800 dollars now, of 18-40 years of food stamps and welfare?

Yep.. I'm going to hell.. Not that I was going anywhere else before I said that, but Now I get free internet.

[Morel42]

Oh The Messiah won’t fail us! Everything he preaches HAS to be the truth!!! He would never lead us astray from the truth, and foundations of our forefathers.
(Cough) Anti (Cough) Christ (Cough)

Silly rabbit.. The Anti-Christ will actually run things extremely well for a few years before the blood of the non-believers will run in the streets!


Praise JEBUS!

[adymond]

I realize that I am risking what little shread of a soul that I have with saying this but..


800 dollars now, of 18-40 years of food stamps and welfare?

Yep.. I'm going to hell.. Not that I was going anywhere else before I said that, but Now I get free internet.

Or we could just keep the government out of both.

[autotech6506]

it's funny that abortion rights fall into the "I'm a woman and should have control of my own body" when the whole reason for an abortion is because they couldn't control their body.

just sayin'

[PocketProtector]

Congratulations on deciphering the Ospeak code for health care. This is one of the insidious reasons why they REALLY want health care, to get abortions paid for.
If paying for abortions was a separate stand alone bill (which some might even read) there wouldn't be a snowball's chance in hell of it passing. Just more smoke and mirrors form Oudini.