Obama Isn’t Budging on Abortion in Healthcare Reform
Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
President Obama devoted a single line of his speech to Congress last night to the debate over abortion coverage in healthcare reform:
And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up: under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.
That sounds like an endorsement of the House healthcare bill's approach to abortion coverage, which Democrats say forbids federal dollars from funding abortion in private healthcare plans that receive government subsidies. Conservatives dismiss the purported abortion funding ban as a "paper fiction."
It's worth noting that Obama didn't acknowledge the growing concern of religious progressives about Americans in the public health insurance plan being forced to fund abortions with their premiums.
On abortion—and for the moment—the White House isn't budging at all.
Tags: abortion | healthcare | Barack Obama | religion
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i think the heaqlthcare reform is a bunch of crap
i think the healthcare reform is a bunch of crap its going to cost us to much money causing food and taxes to go up
FactCheck.org says Abortion Funding is in House Bill
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/abortion-which-side-is-fabricating/
It isn't just conservatives that consider the funding ban on abortion a "paper fiction." The nonpartison Annenberg Foundation's website www.factcheck.org also comes up with the same conclusion.
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