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U.S. House Votes to Cut Federal Funds from Planned Parenthoo
Democrats and rinos in Senate urge senate to keep the destruction of the unborn legal
Date: 3/2/2011 2:45:07 PM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 1839 times the U.S. House of Representatives adopted, 240-185, an amendment offered by Congressman Mike Pence (R-In.) to cut off federal funds to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and 102 named PPFA affiliates. National Right to Life Committee and Right to Life of Michigan supported the amendment.
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, reporting 324,008 abortions in 2008, with plans to expand their abortion business. According to press reports, PPFA has recently mandated that all of its regional affiliates must provide abortions by the end of 2013.
n March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a massive restructuring of health care. It was strongly opposed by all major prolife groups, including Right to Life of Michigan and the National Right to Life Committee.
The new law requires that U.S. citizens purchase health insurance starting in 2014 or pay a penalty. Also starting in 2014, the federal government will provide insurance subsidies called affordability credits to households earning up to four times the federal poverty level. PPACA also will greatly expand Medicaid and restructure Medicare. The abortion provisions in the health care law are most concerning to prolife people:
Individuals can use affordability credits to purchase insurance plans that cover elective abortion. This federal funding of insurance plans that cover abortion violates the long-standing principles of the Hyde Amendment.
In plans that cover elective abortion, each individual on the plan will be forced to pay an abortion surcharge that will be used exclusively to pay for enrollees' abortions. It is inevitable that some prolife people will have to enroll in such plans, due to employment or lack of access to a plan that doesn't cover abortions. Several states, including Michigan, are working to introduce "opt-out" bills in their state legislatures.
The law allows the Obama administration or future administrations to redefine abortion as "preventative care." The executive branch would use this unprecedented redefinition to expand access to abortion and could require every private health care plan to cover abortion.
It opens the door to direct federal funding of abortion at Community Health Centers and through the Indian Health Service.
It fails to guarantee essential conscience protections for prolife medical professionals.
The U.S. House approved PPACA on Sunday, March 21, 2010, with a vote of 219-212. One day after signing PPACA into law, President Obama signed an Executive Order which Representative Bart Stupak and other prolife Democrats touted as a fix for the pro-abortion provisions in PPACA. However, prolife groups concur that the Executive Order fails to correct any of the pro-abortion problems listed above. In response to the Executive Order, National Right to Life issued a statement that read in part: "The Executive Order promised by President Obama was issued for political effect. It changes nothing. It does not correct any of the serious pro-abortion provisions in the bill. The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says."
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