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Official text of useless Executive Order. STATEMENT FROM COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR DAN PFEIFFER
Patriot Room ^ | 03/21/10 | Clyde Middleton

Posted on 03/21/2010 1:54:00 PM PDT by American Dream 246

Today, the President announced that he will be issuing an executive order after the passage of the health insurance reform law that will reaffirm its consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion.

While the legislation as written maintains current law, the executive order provides additional safeguards to ensure that the status quo is upheld and enforced, and that the health care legislation's restrictions against the public funding of abortions cannot be circumvented.

The President has said from the start that this health insurance reform should not be the forum to upset longstanding precedent. The health care legislation and this executive order are consistent with this principle.

The President is grateful for the tireless efforts of leaders on both sides of this issue to craft a consensus approach that allows the bill to move forward.

A text of the pending executive order follows:

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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ENSURING ENFORCEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ABORTION RESTRICTIONS IN THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (approved March __, 2010), I hereby order as follows:

Section 1. Policy.

Following the recent passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("the Act"), it is necessary to establish an adequate enforcement mechanism to ensure that Federal funds are not used for abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered), consistent with a longstanding Federal statutory restriction that is commonly known as the Hyde Amendment. The purpose of this Executive Order is to establish a comprehensive, government-wide set of policies and procedures to achieve this goal and to make certain that all relevant actors--Federal officials, state officials (including insurance regulators) and health care providers--are aware of their responsibilities, new and old.

The Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to the newly-created health insurance exchanges. Under the Act, longstanding Federal laws to protect conscience (such as the Church Amendment, 42 U.S.C. ?300a-7, and the Weldon Amendment, Pub. L. No. 111-8, ?508(d)(1) (2009)) remain intact and new protections prohibit discrimination against health care facilities and health care providers because of an unwillingness to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.

Numerous executive agencies have a role in ensuring that these restrictions are enforced, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Section 2. Strict Compliance with Prohibitions on Abortion Funding in Health Insurance Exchanges. The Act specifically prohibits the use of tax credits and cost-sharing reduction payments to pay for abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered) in the health insurance exchanges that will be operational in 2014. The Act also imposes strict payment and accounting requirements to ensure that Federal funds are not used for abortion services in exchange plans (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered) and requires state health insurance commissioners to ensure that exchange plan funds are segregated by insurance companies in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, OMB funds management circulars, and accounting guidance provided by the Government Accountability Office.

I hereby direct the Director of OMB and the Secretary of HHS to develop, within 180 days of the date of this Executive Order, a model set of segregation guidelines for state health insurance commissioners to use when determining whether exchange plans are complying with the Act's segregation requirements, established in Section 1303 of the Act, for enrollees receiving Federal financial assistance. The guidelines shall also offer technical information that states should follow to conduct independent regular audits of insurance companies that participate in the health insurance exchanges. In developing these model guidelines, the Director of OMB and the Secretary of HHS shall consult with executive agencies and offices that have relevant expertise in accounting principles, including, but not limited to, the Department of the Treasury, and with the Government Accountability Office. Upon completion of those model guidelines, the Secretary of HHS should promptly initiate a rulemaking to issue regulations, which will have the force of law, to interpret the Act's segregation requirements, and shall provide guidance to state health insurance commissioners on how to comply with the model guidelines.

Section 3. Community Health Center Program.

The Act establishes a new Community Health Center (CHC) Fund within HHS, which provides additional Federal funds for the community health center program. Existing law prohibits these centers from using federal funds to provide abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered), as a result of both the Hyde Amendment and longstanding regulations containing the Hyde language. Under the Act, the Hyde language shall apply to the authorization and appropriations of funds for Community Health Centers under section 10503 and all other relevant provisions. I hereby direct the Secretary of HHS to ensure that program administrators and recipients of Federal funds are aware of and comply with the limitations on abortion services imposed on CHCs by existing law. Such actions should include, but are not limited to, updating Grant Policy Statements that accompany CHC grants and issuing new interpretive rules.

Section 4. General Provisions.

(a) Nothing in this Executive Order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) authority granted by law or presidential directive to an agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This Executive Order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This Executive Order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,


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To: American Dream 246

If he really meant it, he’d have included it in the bill itself.

This is a lie to get those idiots off the fence. They’ll believe it and they’ll never hear about it again. We will ALL be paying for abortions through this bill. Makes me sick to death as if the humongous waste of our money in this bill weren’t enough.


41 posted on 03/21/2010 2:28:08 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discover" Sarah Palin)
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To: katiedidit1
I hope the next time a so called pro life dem runs anywhere, people will be smart enough to see through all this.

Can you really be pro life and be a Democrat? I say NO.

Can you even be a Christian and be a Democrat? Again I think not

42 posted on 03/21/2010 2:30:03 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge ( SARAH PALIN or BUST.)
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To: American Dream 246

It's interesting this is all taking place on a Sunday, during the Easter/Passover season. Man's nature never changes.

Nor does their desire for a king, over trusting in God alone.

43 posted on 03/21/2010 2:33:47 PM PDT by 444Flyer (America, we are being waterboarded by Obama and his minions.)
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To: Friendofgeorge

“Can you even be a Christian and be a Democrat? “

NOT any more...


44 posted on 03/21/2010 2:34:58 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Friendofgeorge
Can you really be pro life and be a Democrat? I say NO.

Can you even be a Christian and be a Democrat? Again I think not

Can you be a patriotic American and a Democrat? HELL NO!!!

45 posted on 03/21/2010 2:36:03 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: American Dream 246

It’s all BUNCK. Nothing more than Monopoly funny money. Wishful thinking!/


46 posted on 03/21/2010 2:38:02 PM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer (Don't tread on us...or you'll pay the price in the next election.)
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To: American Dream 246

big surprise. Democrat votes with the Democrats


47 posted on 03/21/2010 2:38:09 PM PDT by wiseprince
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To: American Dream 246

Reminds me of Chamberlain

“I have here in my hand...”


48 posted on 03/21/2010 2:39:24 PM PDT by wiseprince
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To: American Dream 246
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, ....

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future se

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Jefferson

"Lather, rinse, repeat....often"

FP

49 posted on 03/21/2010 2:41:36 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (He's just a clueless hump. A dangerous clueless hump.)
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To: jtill

Exactly. I don’t think Obama would have agreed to it unless he knew for certain their was an ‘out’.


50 posted on 03/21/2010 2:43:56 PM PDT by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
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To: American Dream 246

If he really means it, why doesn’t Obama issue this before the vote?


51 posted on 03/21/2010 2:45:59 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: American Dream 246

Community Health Center (CHC) is nothing more than a glorified Planned Parenthood....therefore, in essence, while many will argue to the contrary, abortion will be funed with public money.


52 posted on 03/21/2010 2:46:31 PM PDT by cranked
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To: American Dream 246

Stupid-Pact is making a deal with the Devil.


No, he made a deal with Pisser and Obama

Pisser is a sneaky snarky btard but his cleverness has won over low IQ Stupid-pack and it seems there is not much we can do about it, for today.

But later ....


53 posted on 03/21/2010 2:48:02 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009

Made a deal with the devil.


54 posted on 03/21/2010 2:49:08 PM PDT by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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To: American Dream 246
I heard on FOX News that this piece of paper won't override federal law. If it did the pro-abortion members would halt the process.
55 posted on 03/21/2010 2:55:11 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: American Dream 246

Time for talk is over. OVER.

Are you fucking people ready for a revolution yet?


56 posted on 03/21/2010 2:55:28 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: My Favorite Headache
Are you fucking people ready for a revolution yet?

Read my tag.

58 posted on 03/21/2010 3:01:24 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: samtheman
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59 posted on 03/21/2010 3:02:11 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: mware

Epic.

So is this.


60 posted on 03/21/2010 3:03:25 PM PDT by samtheman
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