A couple of weeks ago, Dorinda Bordlee, Senior Counsel of Bioethics Defense Fund, brought American readers of National Review the 4 (no, as you'll see, make that 5) ways in which Obama's misnamed health care reform bill promotes and/or directly provides for abortion.When he or Nancy Pelosi or Ben Nelson say the bill will not promote abortion, increase abortions, and require taxpayer payment for abortions, they are lying.
Bordlee has written an important addendum to her February 22nd piece which I encourage you to check out also -- but her original article should be carefully read ...and then forwarded to your friends and family who are listening to the Democrats lie about this day after day.
Here it is:
President Obama’s proposal to revive and ‘build off of’ the 2,000-plus page Senate bill should be dubbed ‘Hydra Healthcare’ because every time one of the many heads of this pro-abortion mega-bill gets lopped off, two more seem to grow back.
The President’s decision not to include Stupak amendment-type language in his proposal means that the current abortion-funding scheme remains in the Senate bill. Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who lead a bipartisan coalition against abortion funding in the House bill, has called the President’s “new” proposal “unacceptable.”
The bill passed by the U.S. Senate on Christmas Eve of 2009 (H.R. 3590) contained multiple, far-reaching pro-abortion provisions. Here is a quick glance at four of the problems in the Obama-backed Senate bill that the President’s proposal leaves untouched:
1) Abortion tax: The Senate bill requires each American purchasing a health plan in the Exchange to make a separate payment to the insurer every month, solely to pay for other people’s abortions.
2) Subsidizing abortion plans: the Senate’s language on tax credits allows subsidies for health plans that cover elective abortions, against the policy of the Hyde amendment and other longstanding federal laws.
3) Healthcare Rights of Conscience: The Stupak codification of the Hyde/Weldon conscience protection provision is not included, meaning that pro-life health care workers would not have the full protection of the law against discrimination or dismissal.
4) School-based Health Clinics and Abortion Referrals: The Senate bill says that abortions cannot be “performed” in school-based health clinics, but there is no language to prevent school clinics from referring our teens for abortion or even helping minors make arrangements to go across state lines to avoid parental-involvement laws.
But there is one abortion provision in the current Senate bill that the President did propose to amend, and it’s this:
5) Increased Direct Funding of Abortion in Community Health Centers: While the current Senate bill authorizes and appropriates $7 billion for services at “community health centers” (which would include Planned Parenthood clinics), the President’s new proposal increases that appropriation to $11 billion. A clear explanation of why the Hyde amendment does not prevent direct use of these billions of dollars for elective abortions is provided by Douglas Johnson of NRLC.
The voice of Ronald Reagan seems to echo from beyond . . . “There you go again.”
