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Surprise! ObamaCare is Going to Pay for Abortions

In a completely predictable move, ObamaCare will pay for abortions.  Lifesite News is on the story:

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — The Obama administration has officially approved the first instance of taxpayer funded abortions under the new national government-run health care program. This is the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned about when Congress considered the bill.

The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March.

It has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of pro-abortion Governor Edward Rendell under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.

The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.

“The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million in federal tax funds, which we’ve discovered will pay for insurance plans that cover any legal abortion,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee.

Johnson told LifeNews.com: “This is just the first proof of the phoniness of President Obama’s assurances that federal funds would not subsidize abortion — but it will not be the last.”

“President Obama successfully opposed including language in the bill to prevent federal subsidies for abortions, and now the Administration is quietly advancing its abortion-expanding agenda through administrative decisions such as this, which they hope will escape broad public attention,” Johnson said.

The abortion funding comes despite language in the bill that some pro-abortion Democrats and Obama himself claimed would prevent abortion funding and despite a controversial executive order Obama signed supposedly stopping abortion funding.

The pro-life community strongly opposed the executive order and said Rep. Bart Stupak and other House Democrats who voted for the pro-abortion health care bill in exchange for it were selling out their pro-life principles. This first case of forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions under the new law appears to prove them right that the bill language and executive order were ineffective.

Go here to read the rest.

Kathryn Lopez at National Review Online reports that ObamaCare will also pay for abortions in New Mexico:

Yesterday, we visited the Pennsylvania high-risk health-care insurance program and its abortion funding.

In New Mexico, the new $37 million high-risk pool began enrolling individuals on July 1. They will start receiving benefits in August, including elective-abortion services, according to the state insurance department’s website. Once a deductible is paid, 80 percent of the elective abortion is covered.

Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee tells me: “HHS has been hiding most of these high-risk plans, including the plan that HHS will administer directly in 21 states. Of the four state plans we’ve managed to ferret out, two provided coverage of all essentially all abortions — Pennsylvania and New Mexico. This is part of a pattern, under this administration, of making ‘soft’ rhetorical statements on abortion policy, but consistently promoting and expanding abortion through low-visibility administrative decisions. The administration’s heavy funding of groups pushing a proposed new pro-abortion constitution in Kenya is another example.”

Go here to read the rest.

Of course pro-lifers should not be alarmed.  Bart Stupak will go running into the Oval Office and wave at Obama the executive order that he obtained from Obama in exchange for Stupak selling out on Obamacare.  After Obama is done laughing at Stupak, I assume that effective action will be taken to correct the situation.

Update: I should leave humor to Mr.  Stupak.  His statement, as he continues his journey to full pro-abort, is much funnier than my attempt:

“This is the latest example of some right to life groups politicizing life issues in an effort to undermine health care reform.  The President’s Executive Order makes clear that federal funds may not be used for abortion under the Affordable Care Act – including the pre-existing condition insurance pools currently being implemented in Pennsylvania and states across the country.  In accordance with the Executive Order, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has directed states that federal funds provided under health care reform may not be used to fund abortion.  HHS has reiterated this policy in response to the current accusations from the National Right to Life Committee.  While these recycled scare tactics may make for good headlines, we should not lose sight of the fact that tens of thousands of individuals across the nation who have been denied coverage by health insurance companies due to pre-existing conditions will for the first time have access to affordable health insurance.  We need to take a whole life approach to health care which looks out for those who are out of the womb as well as those in the womb.”

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Christina
Christina
Wednesday, July 14, AD 2010 7:40pm

So, his response to “recycled scare tactics” is recycled excuses?

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Wednesday, July 14, AD 2010 7:42pm

The abortion catholics that voted for Obama are worse than hitler.

DarwinCatholic
Wednesday, July 14, AD 2010 8:37pm

The abortion catholics that voted for Obama are worse than hitler.

I’m unclear how “gullible” or “self-deluded” or “making poor moral/political judgments” translates to “worse than hitler”. Such uses of polemic rob history of any meaning.

Blackadder
Wednesday, July 14, AD 2010 8:51pm

What about Himmler? Can I mention Himmler?

Jay Anderson
Wednesday, July 14, AD 2010 8:52pm

How about “worse than the people who elected” the person who is not to be named in this thread?

And while it may be charitable to mark up the support for Obama by the “abortion catholics” to their being gullible, self-deluded, or having made poor moral/political judgments, I think it is probably more the case that they just don’t give a rat’s @$$ about abortion when weighed in the balance against all the other leftist goodies that the Democrat Party has on offer.

Christina
Christina
Wednesday, July 14, AD 2010 9:03pm

lol, Blackadder.

Elaine Krewer
Admin
Wednesday, July 14, AD 2010 9:23pm

Bart who? Oh yeah, that congresscritter from Michigan. I thought he was already residing in the Where Are They Now File. Looks like all he got for his allegedly historic compromise was 15 minutes of fame and an early retirement.

afl
afl
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 4:37am

For the life of me, i can not understand why this informatiion suprises anyone now, we all knew what was going to happen when the so called compromise was made. Our President modus operani has always been to appease someone with a promise and then make a political move. Like he promised the Seniors that they would have more coverage and better medical care because of his health bil and would not get hurt. What a joke and AARP bought it and they can say goodbye to mnay members. Wait til the Seniors find out how badly they have been had. The wanted change and boy are they going to get it.

Bill Sr.
Bill Sr.
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 6:28am

The really sickening thing about this is to realize it could have all been avoided had a good portion of misled “Social Justice” Catholics and the USCCB who were more dedicated to political correctness than Biblical truth and more fearful of Federal lawmakers than the voices of their flocks. And in particular one Doug Kemeic, (now Obama’s appointed ambassador to Malta) who used his status as and elitist in catholic doctrine to conger a guilt complex on any of the faithful who would waste a chance to vote for a minority president regardless of his lack of experience or his vague past and highly questionable background and associations.
There were many prominent catholic leaders who were duped either by the Obama media or their own shallow catholicity who joined the false Hope and Change brigade in some sort of self chastisement to relieve or remove a dark shadow they believed existed within their conscience. The accolades and support filled the catholic media and were hand picked to blast all over the mainstream press and television. But none more so than (Ambassador) Doug Kemeic who just could not heap enough praise on the anointed One or criticize and admonish Catholics who took pause to question his credentials or values.

I write for any and all the Church’s faithful who remember this and feel the betrayal imposed on us as our nation slips deeper into the culture of death and corruption.

Robert
Robert
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 8:07am

I just want to know how I can ensure that when I pay my taxes – my section of that money does not go to that funding… If I can’t how can I even justify paying my taxes at all?

Side note (No member of a Socialist Party in Germany during WWII was harmed during the making of this comment)

Pauli
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 8:26am

We need to take a whole life approach to health care which looks out for those who are out of the womb as well as those in the womb.

Really, we should all take these wise words to heart. How many Catholics do you know who claim to be pro-life and yet neglect provide food and shelter for their children? If you’re like me, the answer is “a whole lot.” I forget how many kids I have because they’ve all been born already, but the other day one of the younger ones, I think, got hit by a car. I think he’s all right, but I probably ought to check on him. I’ll call up the city council, who should be handling these kind of cases, and find out what hospital he’s in.

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 8:49am

Can we call them “Catholics for Voldemort?”

Tito Edwards
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 8:50am

The really sickening thing about this is to realize it could have all been avoided had a good portion of misled “Social Justice” Catholics and the USCCB who were more dedicated to political correctness than Biblical truth and more fearful of Federal lawmakers than the voices of their flocks.

You hit the nail right on its head.

The USCCB is partially responsible for the fiasco we are in now.

Cardinal George pulled out all the stops to get pro-lifers to vote but remained mute and silent when Bart Stupak surrendered to the Culture of Death.

trackback
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 9:04am

[…] American Catholic doesn’t fail to keep its readers […]

Blackadder
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 9:09am

“Can I mention Himmler?”

No, nor any other members of the Third Reich. This is a Nazi free thread.

I’ll do my best.

Big Tex
Big Tex
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 9:26am

“Can I mention Himmler?”

No, nor any other members of the Third Reich. This is a Nazi free thread.

What about Sergeant Schultz or Colonel Klink? General Burkhalter? Major Hochstetter?

No? I know nothing! Noth-thing!

ron chandonia
ron chandonia
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 9:33am

We are being told two completely different stories about this, and I for one would like to know which story is accurate. Vox Nova has challenged you. Please answer their charge that you (and NRLC) are spreading lies:

http://vox-nova.com/2010/07/15/rampant-dishonesty-continues/

Jenny
Jenny
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 10:10am

The abortion catholics that voted for Obama are worse than hitler.
This doesn’t leave anything for the so called Catholic blogs that spend most of their time defending and shilling for the democratic party’s love of abortion.

Paul Zummo
Admin
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 10:17am

Vox Nova has challenged you

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still made a sound?

RL
RL
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 10:27am

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still made a sound?

The laws of physics dictate that it does. Whether the sound is missed or is of any consequence or not is another thing.

trackback
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 10:29am

[…] The Department of Health and Human Services has released the following statement regarding allegations that newly approved Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans would cover abortions: As is the case […]

love the girls
love the girls
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 10:29am

UPDATE, 4:03p: I’m told on high authority from someone who saw it that the Obama administration issued a statement last night stating the $160 mil wouldn’t cover abortions and then pulled it back. I’m told a new or revised statement is in the works.

http://www.jillstanek.com/obamacare-to-fund-abortions-in.html

Apparently M.Z. “doesn’t believe his readers are worthy of knowing the truth.” The “Rampant Dishonesty Continues”

Blackadder
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 10:32am

The Oxford Dictionary of Current English gives the following definitions for “sound”:

1. sensation caused in the ear by the vibration of the surrounding air or other medium. 2. vibrations causing this sensation. 3. what is or may be heard.

The tree would not make a sound under the first two definitions, but probably would under the third.

RL
RL
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 10:53am

Actually I would say that number is 2 the most relevant. It doesn’t mean there needs to be an ear detecting it. Wiki:

Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.[1]

I don’t think anyone disputes that sonar is the use of sound waves to measure. Typically the human ear doesn’t even pick up the sound waves.

Pauli
Thursday, July 15, AD 2010 5:21pm

Pauli, you are the Catholic Iowahawk!

Answering that accusation with specificity is above my pay grade.

Ike
Ike
Friday, July 16, AD 2010 10:35am

I just want to look into the eyes of my supposedly pro-life friends who supported this, and scream at them, “How could you not have known? How could you possibly not have known that this was the inevitable consequence of giving men and women who have proven themselves dishonest and pro-abortion, controll over life and death in America? You know what, let me answer that for you: you did know; some where inside you did know, but you just didn’t really care!”

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