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Obamacare and Abortion
freebeacon.com ^ | July 4 2012 | freebeacon.com

Posted on 07/04/2012 9:26:16 PM PDT by NoLibZone

The Supreme Court’s controversial decision last week to uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare is re-igniting the debate over the president’s health care overhaul and public funding of abortions.

Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, told the Free Beacon recently that “there are a number of different components in Obamacare that would expand abortion” as well as several provisions to fund abortion.

Johnson explained that abortion funding “is always included unless it’s explicitly excluded.”

He provided Medicaid as an example: “Medicaid law doesn’t say anything about abortion, so Medicaid began to pay for abortion on demand.” According to federal law, “abortions are medical services,” he said.

The Hyde Amendment forbids federal funding of abortion, but does not cover the new provisions in the Affordable Care Act.

“Direct appropriations,” Johnson explained, fall outside the “regular funding pipeline” of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which the Hyde Amendment covers.

In sworn testimony of October 2010, Johnson recorded the failure of two amendments—Stupak-Pitts and Nelson-Hatch—to the House and Senate versions of the Affordable Care Act.

Each would have ensured that the law could neither directly fund abortion nor subsidize insurance plans including it.

President Barack Obama and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.,) opposed these amendments, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) wrote a new version of the bill in order to avoid the Stupak-Pitts Amendment.

The Nelson-Hatch Amendment failed in the Senate.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; nrlc; obamacare; obamcare; obbortions; zerocare

1 posted on 07/04/2012 9:26:21 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone
I have not seen if anyone else has thought of this or posted it, but mark my words. As a result of the desasterous, unconstitutional monstrosity of a health care bill. The party of death and slavery will soon be forcing pregnant women to have their babies tested for any abnormalities such as down syndrome and forcing abortions because we just can not afford them.

Thank you Chief Justice for the coming murder of thousands of children. Not to mention the re institution of slavery by the Democrat party. I hope your 16 year old girl popularity contest works out well for you. I would take Benedict Arnold over you any day of the week!!!

2 posted on 07/04/2012 9:42:35 PM PDT by Anti-Christ is Hillary
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To: Anti-Christ is Hillary

why not tax every abortion. $1000000 tax payment per abortion. no pay?

go to jail


3 posted on 07/04/2012 10:15:07 PM PDT by Manta (Obama to issue executive order repealing laws of physics)
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To: NoLibZone

We neeed to make sure that people know this is the guy who has taken over the “health care” for our children and grandchildren — what a monster he is: http://www.jillstanek.com/2008/02/links-to-barack-obamas-votes-on-illinois-born-alive-infant-protection-act/


4 posted on 07/04/2012 10:27:32 PM PDT by line drive to right
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To: NoLibZone

Correct me if I am wrong but Bart Stupac and a group of pro-life ‘RATs were promised by 0bama that 0bummercare would not include funding for abortion.

Maybe I am not understanding this correctly but this really is a an out and out lie by the admin as they quickly abandoned this promise.

0bamacare would never have passed without this lie.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/09/stupak-obamacare-protected-conscience-except-when-it-didnt/


5 posted on 07/04/2012 10:41:30 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: NoLibZone

Repeal it, and ALL of its provisions will be nullified. Then, start dismantling the bureaucracy that has already begun to balloon around Obamacare.


6 posted on 07/04/2012 10:45:41 PM PDT by SuziQ
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7 posted on 07/04/2012 10:51:02 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Anti-Christ is Hillary
"The party of death and slavery will soon be forcing pregnant women to have their babies tested for any abnormalities such as down syndrome and forcing abortions because we just can not afford them."

Yep. The most transparent administration is, in reality, just that occasionally.

Evil is as evil does.

They won't force a mother to kill her child, they just won't pay the "extra" cost .

Really ...quite transparent.

8 posted on 07/05/2012 1:14:51 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Salvation

Save


9 posted on 07/05/2012 1:17:04 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Stupak just wanted plausible deniability, pure and simple. He knew it was meaninglnless.


10 posted on 07/05/2012 1:22:11 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: NoLibZone

Washington insiders LOOOOOVE dead babies.


11 posted on 07/05/2012 5:05:11 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Obama doesnÂ’t have the work ethic to be Anti-Christ.)
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To: NoLibZone

Conservatives are missing a big hammer that has been handed to them. Obamacare mandates that all medical records be submitted to a federal database. As a result it has eliminated the “right to privacy” established by Roe. Obamacare legislatively overtuned Roe v Wade and Roberts upheld it. I say we use it to hammer the murder advocates.

Plus, any “medical procedure” can be outlawed with the stroke of a pen. So, abortion can be eliminated with any change in political winds.

I hate Obamacare, so I want to hoist the left on their own petard!


12 posted on 07/05/2012 5:07:08 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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