Posted on 09/09/2009 5:04:18 PM PDT by thedailyjabber
National Right to Life on the health care debate: “On government-funded abortion, Obama has duped the news media with head fakes and doubletalk”
NRLC releases two new memoranda refuting “the Hyde Amendment myth” and “the private funds myth.”
WASHINGTON (September 8, 2009) — The following statement may be attributed to Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), which is the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states.
The health care legislation being pushed forward by President Obama would create a federally run insurance plan that would pay for elective abortion with government funds. The legislation also would provide massive tax-based subsidies to purchase private insurance plans that would cover elective abortions. Both of these new programs would represent drastic breaks with decades of federal policy against funding abortions in government-subsidized health programs.
Yet, in recent weeks, much of the news media have been manipulated by top Congressional Democrats and by the White House into denying or minimizing the abortion-related policy changes that are being advanced. Many journalists have casually adopted highly misleading characterizations of the abortion-related content of the legislation — characterizations that cannot survive careful scrutiny. For example, many journalists have been snookered into reporting that House Democrats amended their legislation (H.R. 3200) so that the proposed government-run insurance program would be paying for elective abortions with “private funds” — a claim that is absurd on its face, and that cannot survive thoughtful and skeptical scrutiny.
It is past time for the would-be factcheckers to stop acting as stenographers for the president and Speaker Pelosi on this issue. Here are some facts for them to check:
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how can he dupe the media they are pro abortion
Heh! They have NOT been duped! They are just going along with the charade - don’t analyze, don’t ask questions, just report what the Democrats say.
It is easy to debunk. Just ask how they prevent services to non US citizens in the bill. What are the penalties for non-compliance. That means that anyone who applies for a government card will not be checked (amendment to actually check citizenship was defeated by the Democrats already) - no enforcement, thus healthcare for all...
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