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 Obamas 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 chargean abortion premium mandateto 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 administrations 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 Obamas war on rights of conscience continues apace.
But since Americans should not be compelled to pay for other peoples 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 planeither on their own or by their employerthat happens to include elective abortion coverage. These enrollees are compelled by the Act to pay a separate premium from their own pocket to the insurers actuarial fund designated solely for the purpose of paying for other peoples 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 employeeswhether the employer has a faith-based objection or notis 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.
Silly, silly voter - Obamacare is not funding the abortions! Oh, no, not us. YOU are funding them a dollar at a time.
We are in one helluve fix.
We are being controlled by politicians who do not have our interest at haert. The only thing they want to do is buy more votes with more entitlements paid for with more funds we do not have.
We have so many people receiving Government jobs, Food Stamps, Welfare, Unemployment,, Union flunkies , women who want to kill their unborn , and blacks who would vote for an outside toilet with Obama’s name on it,that this POS may get re-elected. With no more worries about getting re-elected he will go wild.
And here we are stuck with 1 candidate who is a white Obama, 1 who is crazy as a loon, 1 who is a mere boy with ideas that seem to float when the wind blows and a mouth he cannot keep shut, and 1 who perhaps could do the job, but as it looks now doesn’t stand a chance.
Yes we are in the deep doo.
Wait until you face a Death Panel with a Gestapo Board like the ones at Auschwitz. Bend over!
ObamaCare will dwarf the Holocuast, in my opinion.
I was wondering what more my employer (a hospital) could do to me. I am forced to submit to the flu vaccines every year to keep my job. All the other hospitals in the area have the same policy. In a couple of years they will start docking my pay for abortion fees - NO, that will be the line in the sand that I will not cooperate with - By that time, if the RINOs haven’t repealed or defunded Obamacare (whether Barry is in office or not), we’ll probably be into full-on civil war any how.
But we won’t be allowed to protest. Obambi will dispatch a Secret Service man to the protest spot and start arresting all the protestors. He and his thugs are always one step ahead of the freedom lovers.
Look on the bright side. We may be Greece-style broke and not have a penny, let alone a peso.
I only wish I were joking.
Here’s hoping we are all caught up when Jesus comes.
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what-a-fool-believes alert.
My Jesus is the only one that keeps me from going totally bonkers!
The only thing that surprised me a little is that they inserted this stuff even before it goes into effect. I thought they’d implement it and then stick in all their favorite stuff a little later.
But Obama doesn’t seem to give a damn what anybody things, and he’s too impatient to wait.
That stupid-pack-of-crap knowingly deceived the Country.
He doesn’t do anything else.
That is so "in your face".
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