Posted on 09/11/2009 8:41:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
A new poll shows that 58% of Americans don’t want abortions to be paid for as part of any new public insurance plan.
Yet four of the five health care plans floating around Congress include language that would allow abortions to be paid for with public money. The only one that doesn’t – the Republican plan in the Senate – probably won’t go anywhere.
Joy Yearout, communications director for the Susan B. Anthony list, thinks that the plans’ inclusion of abortion is a direct result of Obama’s previously stated desire to include abortion in any public health care legislation despite more recent claims to the contrary.
“The President promised Planned Parenthood last year that abortion would be included in any health care legislation he proposed,” said Yearout. “It’s just a shell game.”
In the poll, fifty-eight percent of Americans disagreed with the statement, “If the government is going to make a public health plan available for all Americans it has an obligation to provide abortion services under that plan.” Fifty-five percent of Americans agreed with the statement, “Whatever my opinion on the issue, I think it would be wrong for the government to pay for abortions.”
“Today’s polling data offers the latest compelling reason for Congress to reject the President’s health care proposal without authentic language to exclude abortion funding,” said Yearout.
In previous statements, Planned Parenthood has claimed that the public health insurance plan would be funded by an exchange, which is “funded and paid for by private individual premiums, in the same way a private insurance plan is.”
But Yearout says that’s nothing more than a farce.
“Checks for abortionists would be coming from the U.S. government,” she said.
Abortion supporters frequently cite the “gender gap” as evidence that more men than women are against the procedure and public sponsorship of it.
But the Susan B. Anthony List poll showed that not only does this “gender gap” not exist, but it is actually reversed: 44% of women and 41% of men are less likely to be in favor of Obamacare if abortion is included in the plan.
Additionally, the poll showed that 2 out of 3 legislators overall and twenty-five percent of Democrats disapprove of abortion being included in health care legislation.
I'm not a masochist, but I hope he gives another national speech.
I actually heard a Catholic Priest say that... as I stood up and walked out of Mass.
Fortunately it wasn't my home Parish, and even more fortunately, that Parrish was closed and it's Priest retired.
"[Obama's] one sentence denial that his health care proposals would result in federal funding of abortion is simply not true.
"Even the New York Times, which issued a strong editorial endorsing his speech, said in a news analysis that his claim that there is no federal funding for abortion “is not so clear-cut.” In practice, the Times said, “the public and private money would all go into the same pot, and the source of money for any single procedure is largely a technicality.”
"More pointedly, if there is no federal funding for abortion in these plans, then why have there been several attempts to bar such funding? Tell that to Rep. Bart Stupak, Rep. Joe Pitts, Rep. Eric Cantor, Rep. Sam Johnson, Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Mike Enzi. Why would they seek to ban something that doesn’t exist? Just as revealing, why did Obama’s friends defeat every one of these amendments?
"President Obama is playing a shell game. He defended the public option plan last night, and under that plan, the person in charge of deciding whether abortion coverage will be mandated is his Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius. This is the same woman who befriended George Tiller, the infamous abortionist who specialized in killing babies 80-percent born. Is there anyone who doubts what her decision will be? "
http://catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1669
In addition, Obama himself said on July 17, 2007, that "In my mind, reproductive care is essential care" and would be covered by his public insurance plan. He was addressing Planned Parenthood:
Obama, July 17, 2007: We’re going to set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they don’t have health insurance. It will be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services..."
Obama did not use the word "abortion," but a spokesman for the campaign said later that abortion would be included, according to the Chicago Tribune. The NRLC has posted an unedited video of Obama’s response on YouTube.
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Another one of his lies in the speech. In fact, since he addressed objections, the speech was mostly lies, since all the objections are grounded in fact.
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