Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life, writes an eviscerating WSJ article about President Obama’s mind-boggling pattern of inconsistency on the topic of abortion funding. She briefly traces the history of broken promises, then describes in detail how his current proposal misses the mark. Excerpt:
The president’s latest proposal mirrors legislation that has passed the Senate, which doesn’t include a Hyde Amendment, and would inevitably establish abortion as a fundamental health-care service for the following reasons:
• It would change existing law by allowing federally subsidized health-care plans to pay for abortions and could require private health-insurance plans to cover abortion.
• It would impose a first-ever abortion tax—a separate premium payment that will be used to pay for elective abortions—on enrollees in insurance plans that covers abortions through newly created government health-care exchanges.
• And it would fail to protect the rights of health-care providers to refuse to participate in abortions.
The president’s plan goes further than the Senate bill on abortion by calling for spending $11 billion over five years on “community health centers,” which include Planned Parenthood clinics that provide abortions.
Read the whole thing.
HT: Denny Burk