Posted on 01/24/2020 11:15:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration on Friday threatened California with a potential loss of federal health care funds over the state’s requirement that insurance plans cover abortions.
The announcement, timed to coincide with the anti-abortion March for Life in the nation’s capital, came hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to address the marchers in person, becoming the first president to do so. Religious conservatives are a core element of Trump’s political coalition, and his administration has gone out of its way to deliver on their demands.
The federal Health and Human Services Department said it is issuing a “notice of violation,” giving California 30 days to comply with a federal law known as the Weldon amendment. That law bars federal health care funding from being provided to states or entities that practice “discrimination” against a health care organization on the basis that it “does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.”
The head of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, Roger Severino, said California is violating that restriction by requiring insurance plans to cover abortions. According to Severino, 28,000 Californians had abortion-free plans prior to the state’s requirements and have now lost that option. The federal government has received complaints from an order of nuns — the Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit — as well as Skyline Wesleyan Church near San Diego.
“If states receive federal funds ... they cannot discriminate against a health plan that declines to cover abortions,” said Severino.
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Ok, the state is making money form killing innocent humans
We know this, but this is what abortion is? An industry to increase GDP?
Money talks. CA BS walks.
Elections have consequences.
Good. This will have raging feminazis boiling mad! They are going to go out in masse at night to scream at the moon! Should be fun to watch.
l8r
Nullifiers are not pleased.
“We know this, but this is what abortion is? An industry to increase GDP?”
To the Godless evil among us...
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