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Poll: Do You Support the House Healthcare Bill's Abortion Plan?

November 9, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

The House has passed a healthcare reform bill that prohibits a public health insurance option or private plans participating in the government healthcare exchange from including abortion as part of their basic coverage. Women who wanted such coverage would have to buy separate abortion coverage riders.

Antiabortion activists doubt the language will survive; abortion rights supporters are not so sure.

What do you think of the bill's approach to abortion? Explain your vote in comments.

Do you support the House healthcare bill's ban on abortion coverage in health insurance plans participating in a government-run healthcare exchange, even if those plans don't receive federal funds? The plan requires women who want such coverage to purchase a separate abortion coverage rider.

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We, as a nation, need to determine our commitment to the Constitution.

If you want to dismiss it, say that's what you want to do.

Don't claim to support the constitution,and then violate it.

The Constitution guarantees our personal rights, it does not give us any sort of right to a service provided by another person.

Right now, any child who gets sick is taken care of by medicaid or non profit children's hospitals(which, coincidentally, will be heavily taxed under this bill).

No adult who is physically or mentally able to work is "entitled" to anything other than their personal freedoms.

But, as I said, if you want to get rid of the Constitution, let the people decide.

Why don't we just decide that people are entitled to a nice car, a house, an HD TV, and WHATEVER THE HELL ELSE WE JUST FEEL LIKE WE DESERVE?

Oh, wait, I think that's already been tried in places like Russia... That worked out well, didn't it?

Josh L. of MO 3:30PM November 21, 2009

Abortion is a legal medical opton. If we start to restrict options that conflict with the moral or religious views where mi9ght it stop. Some do not agree with birthcontrol or stem cell treatments. These people have the right to decline whatever they wish to decline. They do not have the right to decide health care that others want and need. I repeat abortion is a legal medical option.

Health should be a right.

Cecile of MA 7:40PM November 12, 2009

Women with money could always get the best birth control & abortion when that failed. Poorer woman are frequently not aware of the best birth control measures & do not have availability through insurance. When they become pregnant they have few alternatives. In addition, this new amendment puts you in the position that if you use YOUR OWN MONEY for an abortion, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR INSURANCE! So even people with money are at risk of losing full coverage!

Diane Schwarz of NJ 5:41PM November 12, 2009

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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