Posted on 03/25/2012 8:57:31 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
RomneyCare now offers free elective surgical abortions.
Mitt Romney was the enabler. This is how his government-dictated health plan is playing out. And he’s still proud of it. When he does touch on defects in his health plan, he never mentions abortion coverage as a problem. He’s either fine with it, or realizes he has to downplay it to get the conservative vote.
When the law was first implemented, there was a $50 copay for a RomneyCare elective surgical abortion. Now RomneyCare abortions are "free" for a $0 copay (or $50-$100 in some plans). In fact, the $0 copay shows up as early as 2008 at the Massachusetts Health Care Connector site. (The "Commonwealth Care" plans cover low-income residents, many of whom pay no monthly premiums.)
Of course, the abortions are not exactly free. We, the taxpayers cover the cost, whether we want to or not.
Amazingly, as overall RomneyCare costs and insurance premiums escalate, the copay for abortion drops! Why?
Because government health care is promoting abortion. This is really about “population control” by arrogant politicians and bureaucrat elites, righteously implementing Margaret Sanger’s eugenics dream. They don’t like excess people, especially if they’re “low income.”
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Am no Romney fan; but wouldn’t this MO be on Deval Patrick’s resume?
Romneycare was already pro-abort when it was first passed. Co-pay for an abortion was just $50. And Romney put an officer of Planned Parenthood on the Romneycare board of directors, ex-officio. There are no ex-officio doctors or health experts, but there is an ex-officio abortion provider.
But it was also obvious to the dullest eye that once a government healthcare plan was passed, in a liberal state like Taxachusetts, that free taxpayer funded abortion would not be far behind. We were saying so at the time. And, sure enough, here it is, courtesy of Mitt Romney. He knew damned well that that would happen.
Massachusetts being one of the most LIBERAL states has that law on the books. Romney had no other option than to have hospitals offer the “morning after” pill in cases of incest, rape, or to save the life of the mother. If you’ve never been raped, etc. you can never understand.
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