Posted on 03/15/2012 4:17:44 PM PDT by wagglebee
When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, i.e., ObamaCare, was being debated in public and in Congress during 2010, Americans who supported life were told again and again that the legislation would not cover abortion. But like so many other aspects of Obama’s healthcare overhaul, what was promised and what was received turned out to be two different things – especially considering that many legislators read the bill only after they signed it into law.
For example, the Obama administration has now made it clear that the individual mandate in ObamaCare will contain a charge—an “abortion premium mandate”—to forcibly collect monies from millions of Americans who participate in state-administered “insurance exchanges” to pay for elective abortions. And nothing in the final rule that the Department of Health and Human Services issued March 12 concerning the establishment of exchanges required by ObamaCare alters that in the least.
The administration’s plan is to “collect a $1 abortion surcharge from each premium payer” once ObamaCare goes into effect in 2014. Or to put it another way, Americans enrolled in federally-subsidized ObamaCare plans will pay $1 a month to subsidize the abortion industry whether they are pro-life or pro-death, religiously opposed to abortion or religiously indifferent, morally outraged by killing children in the womb or morally obtuse on the matter.
This means President Obama’s war on rights of conscience continues apace.
But since Americans should not be compelled to pay for other people’s elective abortions, the Alliance Defense Fund joined the Bioethics Defense Fund in filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of numerous pro-life medical groups on Feb. 13.
The brief lays out the case by highlighting the “inescapable requirements upon all individuals who are, even unwittingly, enrolled in a health plan–either on their own or by their employer–that happens to include elective abortion coverage.” These “enrollees are compelled by the Act to pay a separate premium from their own pocket to the insurer’s actuarial fund designated solely for the purpose of paying for other people’s elective abortions.” Moreover, the requirement denies “enrollees the ability to decline abortion coverage based on religious or moral objections.”
Sadly, it appears that just as Congress passed ObamaCare under the cover of night in March 2010, the aspects of the legislation tied to the abortion mandate were done in an underhanded fashion as well:
Due to the public uproar [over]…elective abortion coverage, the drafters [of the Act] devised a scheme to avoid the direct federal funding of abortion. This goal of avoiding the use of tax-payer subsidies for abortion coverage was unfortunately achieved by a means that violates the First Amendment; namely, by compelling the taxpayer to personally pay a separate abortion premium.
There is too much at stake for Americans to simply look the other way on this particular issue. The same president who issued a mandate in February to force most employers, including religious ones, to provide insurance that covers contraceptives and abortifacients for their employees—whether the employer has a faith-based objection or not—is also telling Americans they will fund the elective, surgical abortions of other Americans.
The First Amendment and our rights of conscience are at stake. No less than freedom itself is threatened by this mandate.
Tell Obama: Stop This Pro-Abortion Mandate
LifeNews Note: Alan Sears, a former federal prosecutor in the Reagan Administration, is president and CEO of the Alliance Defense Fund.
Yet that's what the GOP, which hasn't even mentioned this, wants us to do.
> They Lied Saying Obamacare Wouldn’t Fund Abortions
Heh.
Which of us is surprised?
I know I’m not.
Not in the least bit.
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We knew they were lying to us.
The only ones they fooled were themselves in thinking we were fooled.
And, it was rammed down our gullets anyway.
I thought that courageous pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak took care of this?
You really expected that they were telling the truth when it came to abortion?
That was only to provide cover for those voting for 0bamascare. NO ONE was fooled by the lying bastards, but they'll have to answer to a much higher power.
They want to make us complicit in their crimes.
Obama is naive if he thinks Americans are just going to roll over and accept abortions paid through a $1 premium tax. There should be protests in the street over this, but the GOP court eunuchs have yet said nothing. I hope all those liberal Catholics who supported Obamcare are now seeing the deal they made with the devil. What more surprises does Obamacre have in store, federal funding for euthanasia?
They know we will never do anything about it.
Evil has won.
We have the potential of a complete disaster on our hands. I just pray that we will somehow manage to get a conservative as our nominee. Otherwise, I just don’t know what our future will be.
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Exactly right.
And the Bishops know that Obama lied about all of this.
People would not friggin listen.
We were warned about abortion, about the death panels about rationing.
Nancy Pelosi told us we had to pass it to know what was in it. That was worse than a lie, because half of what they are now placing in it was not clearly written in the law.
The wording was purposely misleading and full of holes.Pelosi knew that, she is a lying scumbag.
We got Fluked. We got this thing shoved right up our buttocks, sideways, and now the only thing we can do is get rid of Obama and his Shytty Healthcare or go broke and die young.They just came out and admitted it would cost in the trillions, this Obamacare that was going to lower costs.
Wait until thousands of Americans are sitting in clinics with no Doctors, no health care and no chance of life if they get sick over the age of 65.With cathgolic hospitals closed up, Catholic adoption agencies closed up. Not bad enough we have to pay for abortions.now we have to pay for birth control pills and rubbers.
Obama will save Social Security by letting anyone on it die, if they become sick.Wake up America. We have been sold down the river by a Muslim President,RINO’s in Congress and a Communist Democrat party.
“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
0bama must be related to Bin Laden. You can just feel the blade twisting inside, knowing all the while that people you entrusted with your governance and protection actually are planning on killing you by inches or letting you rot from gangrene. While they laugh and party.
I expect to be featured on a Fox News “Breaking News” segment with SWAT teams and all that when they come and try to collect that $1 from me.
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