Health Care Bill Proposed by Obama

If you think President Obama wants to find common ground on the abortion issue, think again. Yesterday, the President revealed the changes he wants in the Senate Health Care Bill.

 

Any members of Congress, who vote for the final legislation proposed by President Obama, will be voting for direct federal funding of elective abortion through Community Health Centers, as well as an array of other pro-abortion federal subsidies and mandates.

 

If all of the President's changes are made, the resulting legislation would allow direct federal funding of abortion on demand, through Community Health Centers, would institute federal subsidies for private health plans that cover abortion on demand, and would authorize federal mandates, that would require even non-subsidized private plans to cover elective abortion.

 

Remember, the Senate passed H.R. 3590 in December. The Senate bill, through the amendment process, was the most expansively pro-abortion bill ever brought to the floor of either House of Congress, since Roe v Wade. The Senate bill, as passed, contained 7 distinct problems pertaining to abortion policies. Remember, the House bill H.R. 3962 contained none of these pro-abortion components, because of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, that prohibited federal funding of abortion.

 

President Obama proposed "a targeted set of changes to" the Senate passed bill. None of President Obama's proposed changes diminish any of the sweeping pro-abortion problems in the Senate bill. And he actually proposes to increase the funds that would be available to directly subsidize abortion procedures, through Community Health Centers, and to subsidize private health insurance that covers abortion.

 

If all of the President's changes were made, the resulting legislation would allow direct federal funding of abortion on demand, through Community Health Centers, which institute federal subsidies for private health plans that cover abortion on demand. The legislation would authorize federal mandates, that would require even non-subsidized private plans, to cover elective abortion.

 

In other words, the Senate bill, due to a last minute amendment, provides $7 billion dollars for the nation's 1,250 Community Health Centers, without any restriction whatever on the use of these federal funds to pay directly for abortion on demand. These funds are entirely untouched by the Hyde Amendment, that currently covers Medicaid.

 

This bill would also force rationing of life saving medical treatment, and probably many other life issues concerns.

 

President Obama is indeed living up to his title, as the most pro-abortion president that this country has ever elected. He is not interested in common ground. Nor is he interested in making abortion safe legal and rare. With his input on health care, it is evident that he is fulfilling his promise to the national abortion groups, that supported his election.