Taxpayer Funded Abortion an “Essential Benefit” in Obama’s Health Care Plan

Yesterday I wrote about how Obama’s health care appointees want to limit care to the disabled and elderly resulting in a “rationed care” system. That news is, of course, scary.  The news I’m sharing today is simply disgusting and reprehensible to me as a Christian.

Obama’s proposed health care plan would categorize an abortion as an “essential benefit” which would be payed for with taxpayer money.  That means you and I would be paying for other people to murder their babies.

Needless to say, GOP House Leader John Boehner (who I mentioned previously in an article on one of his speeches) doesn’t like what this means for the taxpayers.  And he’s fighting back:

Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Is Not Health-Care Reform
By John Boehner, House Republican Leader
National Review
July 23, 2009

When most Americans talk about the need for health-care reform, they’re usually talking about the need to address rising health-care costs; they aren’t talking about the need for taxpayers to subsidize abortion. In fact, a November 2008 Zogby poll revealed 71 percent of Americans oppose government-funded abortion.

It seems Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill don’t share this perspective, however. With the unequivocal support of President Obama, they’ve written a health-care bill that won’t lower health-care costs for American families, but will require them to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars.

In his campaign for the presidency, President Obama said health-care legislation should include expanded access to abortion. He hasn’t said much on the matter since taking office last January. But now, over the objections of some in his own party, President Obama is demanding that Congress pass health-care legislation before August, and the House is slated to vote next week on a bill that will fulfill the president’s vow if signed into law.

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The legislation’s abortion-related language stands as Exhibit A. How many Americans currently realize the House bill contains provisions that will result in federally mandated coverage of abortion on demand in virtually all of America’s health plans?

Fact: The bill as currently written will allow the federal government to classify abortion as an “essential benefit” — a health-care right that would be guaranteed to all Americans. This will make it illegal for health-care providers nationwide — even Catholic and religious-based hospitals with missions that reflect a fundamental moral objection to the killing of the unborn — to provide anything less than abortion on demand for anyone who seeks it. As a result, the bill will repeal laws in many states that currently require commonsense limitations on abortion-on-demand, such as mandatory parental notification and waiting periods. (italics added for emphasis)

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Reps. Eric Cantor (R. Va.), Sam Johnson (R., Texas), and Mark Souder (R., Ind.) offered amendments this month in three different House committees to strike the provisions from the Democratic bill that force American taxpayers to subsidize abortion. All three amendments, sadly, were defeated by the Democratic majority in committee. And it remains to be seen whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), who champions the House bill and its abortion-related provisions, will allow such an amendment to be considered and debated on the House floor.

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…given its controversial nature, it deserves a full and open public debate — the sort of debate that is impossible when major bills are rammed through Congress based on politically driven timetables.

If a health-care bill doesn’t lower costs for middle-class families, but does require them to subsidize abortion-on-demand with their hard-earned tax dollars, one has to ask a fundamental question: For whom was this bill actually written? Was it written for the millions of Americans who were promised a health-care bill that lowers costs? Or is it really for the radical special-interest and lobbying groups that invested millions to elect a cooperative president and Congress?

Health care is too important to get wrong. Too much is at stake. For the sake of American families struggling with health-care costs — most of whom don’t want their hard-earned money being used by the federal government to subsidize abortion — President Obama should scrap the current health-care bill, and work in a bipartisan way for true reforms.

With this bill, abortion on demand would become a fundamental “right” of all Americans.  Not only would those of us who oppose abortion be forced to accept its widespread use, we would also be required to help pay for it.

Are you starting to get the picture yet?

See also:

• Obama’s Science Czar, John Holdren, Claims Forced Abortions, Mass Sterilization, and World Police Needed To Save the Planet
• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Admits Believing Purpose of Roe v. Wade Was to Get Rid of Undesirables
• California Taxpayers Pony Up For Abortions
• And So It Begins: Obama Lifts Funding Ban For Abortion

Hat tip: Flopping Aces