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Some Democrats Worry About Abortion Funds in Healthcare Bill

By Paul Bedard

July 22, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

Add abortion to the list of issues that could trip up President Obama's bid for healthcare reform this year. Conservative Democrats and antiabortion Republicans are mounting strong opposition to an element of the health reform plans that would mandate taxpayer funding for abortions, a clause that the White House won't rule out as a key element to the final package. Democrats first raised the issue with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter in which they said that mandated abortion coverage "is unacceptable."

Now Republicans and several antiabortion groups are bringing pressure on the Democratic leaders to remove the mandate language—something the House and Senate leaders appear unwilling to do. Tomorrow, many of the opposition groups are planning a webcast tied to a page called StopTheAbortionMandate.com. Some 15,000 participants have signed up, making it the "largest pro-life community online gathering ever," said one organizer.

The issue shifted into high gear when budget director Peter Orszag this weekend refused to rule out taxpayer funded abortions. On Fox News Sunday, he said, "I think that that will wind up being part of the debate. I am not prepared to say explicitly that right now. It's obviously a controversial issue, and it's one of the questions that is playing out in this debate." He added: "I'm not prepared to rule it out."

In a new letter slated for delivery to lawmakers Thursday, several antiabortion groups raised the issue of protecting doctors and medical technicians who refuse to do abortions because of moral beliefs. They also questioned whether Catholic hospitals will be forced to perform abortions, which are banned by the pope. "If any of the proposed plans move forward without explicit language ensuring that abortion is excluded from any government-managed or taxpayer-subsidized benefits, healthcare reform will be a death sentence for thousands of unborn children," says the letter.

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Corrected on 7/22/09: An earlier version of this article should have referred to StopTheAbortionMandate.com.

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1) President Bush is funding surgical abortions via Medicaid (Title XIX) in the HHS Appropriations bills: [see bills below at http://thomas.loc.gov]

Check out HR 3061 for FY 2002, signed by President Bush (PL 107-116) on Jan. 10, 2002

Check out HR 2673 for FY 2004, signed by President Bush (PL 108-109) on Jan. 23, 2004

2) President Bush is funding chemical abortions via Medicaid (Title XIX) and the Title X birth/population control and Planned Parenthood funding program: [see bills below at http://thomas.loc.gov]

Check out HR 3061 for FY 2002, signed by President Bush (PL 107-116) on 1/10/2002

Check out HR 2673 for FY 2004, signed by President Bush (PL 108-109) on 1/23/2004

3) President Bush is funding the nation's largest perpetrators of child-murder-by-abortion, Planned Parenthood (report murdering over 200,000 unborn children annually by surgical abortion alone), through both Medicaid (Title XIX) and Title X, with OVER $50 MILLION per year through each program: [see bills below at http://thomas.loc.gov]

Included in HR 3061 for FY 2002, signed by President Bush (PL 107-116) on 1/10/2002

Included in HR 2673 for FY 2004, signed by President Bush (PL 108-109) on 1/23/2004

4) President Bush has increased the Title X funding levels over $26,000,000 more than the last Clinton budget:

The Title X funding level for FY 2001, the last Clinton-influenced budget, was a total of $254 million, of which over $58 million went to planned parenthood

In FY 2002, George W. Bush's first full budget year, the Title X birth/population control and Planned Parenthood funding authorization increased over 11,000,000, to $265 million (HR 3061 for FY 2002, signed by President Bush on 1/10/2002)

In FY 2004, George W. Bush's most recently completed full budget year, the Title X birth/population control and Planned Parenthood funding authorization increased even more to $280 million, over $26,000,000 ($26 million) more than Bill Clinton's last budget year! (HR 2673 for FY 2004, signed by President Bush on 1/23/2004)

tim peeples of NC 9:07PM July 30, 2009

Many teens and women need help and there is help. We want women to get the support they need. We want women to get the love they need. We want people to have someone to talk to and help them when they are pregnant. Please share the truth and whole truth with them.

There are many places that are willing to help them during tough times. Being pregnant is a tough time for every women and they need all the support they can get. That support is available at many websites and organizations.

Share the truth of where they can get the help: http://www.nurturingnetwork.org/clientpacket.html

http://www.geocities.com/kekogut/help/help.html

Love the Mother and the Child.

Share the Truth and Love

ComPassion of IN 12:01PM July 25, 2009

Abortion is destruction of human life.

- Abortion destroys 3200 unborn babies a day in America.

- Abortion destroys 1.2 Million unborn babies a year in America.

- Abortion has destroyed more than 45 Million unborn babies in 36 years in America.

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The definition of holocaust:

hol·o·caust [ hóll? kàwst, h?l? kàwst ] (plural hol·o·causts)

noun

Definition:

1. destruction of human life: wholesale or mass destruction, especially of human life

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Abortion is destruction of human life: wholesale and mass destruction of human life.

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Abortion in America has killed more human life than Hitler and at a more rapid rate than Hitler killed. What Hitler did was a holocaust. Abortion is a holocaust.

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To have a Choice:

1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).

Source: http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html

We should encourage responsibility. 93% of the time the mother and father made a choice to take a risk that might turn out to be inconvenient or a social reason. They need to be responsible for the life they started. We are not animals and we can make decisions (choice).

It's all about stepping up to the resposibility of the choice that was made 93% of the time.

93% of the time this can not be justified as a medical reason:

- 3200 Uborn American Babies slaughtered a day because of bad choices

- 1.2 Million Uborn American Babies slaughtered a day because of bad choices

- More than 45 Million Unborn American Babies slaughtered in 36 years

We need to do more for the 7%. We need to work hard to protect the mother and the child during this 7%.

The unborn baby does not have a choice if abortion is the choice.

Make Responsible Choices.

When you make a decision to have sex then be responsible.

Be Responsible.

Love Life.

Respect Life

Protect Life.

Love the Mother and the Child.

ComPassion of IN 7:28PM July 24, 2009

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