Abortion coverage in healthcare reform - a volatile issue

One News Now ^ | 7/31/2009 | Charlie Butts

[IbJensen]

o the chagrin of abortion activists, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) introduced an amendment to President Obama's healthcare bill last month that would create an Office of Unborn Children's Health.

Abortion proponents reacted as expected to Coburn's amendment, one blogger accusing him of using healthcare legislation as "a means to continue his ideological attacks." Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards even described it as an "office favorite" in the competition for the worst among dozens of amendments filed in the week after the healthcare reform legislation was introduced, and as evidence of "the perennial assault on women's healthcare...."

But Susan Muskett of the National Right to Life Committee supports drawing positive attention to unborn babies. "Because [the rights of the] unborn child are not only not protected in this Kennedy [healthcare reform] bill, but the Kennedy bill is going to result in mandatory insurance coverage of abortion-on-demand and federal subsidies for abortion on an unprecedented scale," she notes.

The proposed healthcare legislation would increase the availability of abortion and expand the number of abortion providers. It would also override some state laws regarding abortion.

[IbJensen]

Abortion is inherently evil and to scheme to shove through a bill and make Christian taxpayers pay for something they'll never believe in is tantamount to criminal!

[lionheart 247365]

Government controlled genocide .

[C210N]

I've been wondering something and this seems a good thread to ask it:

How does the Federal govt get around the Hyde amendment? I know they fund abortions, but would like to hear about the mechanisms to skirt Hyde...