Posted on 07/05/2009 10:39:05 AM PDT by wagglebee
While liberal Democrats on Capitol Hill are working to pass President Obama's plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, few are talking about this essential issue: Will health care reform force taxpayers to pay for abortions for the first time in 30 years?
The short answer is yes, because there is no explicit provision in the bill to:
• Prevent taxpayer funding of abortions as part of the health care benefit Congress is considering. It is ironic that taxpayer-funded abortions would be considered a "health care benefit" since the baby gets no health care benefit from abortion.
• Prevent delays in health care services that result in the death of the patient waiting for the care, usually the old, infirm and the very sick. In the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions last week, an amendment to prevent the denial, delay or rationing of health care was defeated. Every Democratic senator on the committee voted not to prevent rationing.
• Allow health care providers, including doctors, nurses and pharmacists, to refuse to participate in any health care-related action that violates their conscience, be it an abortion or turning off a ventilator, denying or delaying care that will likely result in the death of a patient, or refusing to dispense an abortion-producing drug.
The entire political and legislative strategy of the health care reform bills being considered by Congress is to be simultaneously vague and to also empower the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to be "the decider" about almost everything.
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Few people have ever been as pro-death as Zero is.
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Atlas is limbering up, getting ready for a big shrug I think.
The only way for pro-life Americans to deal with this is to get off of automatic deduction of taxes to the greatest degree they can, so they owe taxes each year.
That way they can refuse to pay a percentage equal to that which accounts for any abortion or euthanasia payments made by the government.
It cannot be overlooked.
Abortion paid for by gov’t insurance?!
I am so non-shocked.
Every time you hear someone described in a good way, they always include “paid his taxes” in the litany of things that make the person “good” along with stuff like “he didn’t beat his children” or “he didn’t rape da urf”.
How can you be a good person if you don’t pay your taxes? It couldn’t possibly be that you can be a good person if you don’t pay your taxes to a tyrant. Jesus doesn’t love you if you don’t pay your taxes, right?
Except that they will NEVER give us a deduction, in fact we have basically been branded as terrorists.
I’m not talking about a deduction. I’m talking about refusing to pay X% that goes to abortion.
**Few people have ever been as pro-death as Zero is. **
That’s why I call him Obortion Obama!
There is no moral obligation to support the policies of a government that violates the Natural, God given law.
St. Thomas Aquinas discussed this at length 800 years ago.
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