President Obama’s healthcare bill would provide taxpayer funded abortion. At least that’s what the vague wording in the bill states. Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag was asked point blank if he was prepared to rule out taxpayer funded abortions in the healthcare bill. He was not.
Healthcare Taxpayer Funded Abortion
Peter Orszag was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace when he was asked the question, here is what he said:
“I think that that will wind up being part of the debate,” Orszag said on Fox News Sunday. “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….I’m not prepared to rule it out
We all know about the show Obama put on for the Pope, we all know about the lip service democrats give to pro-lifers by telling them that they want to reduce abortions. Considering that, tell me how abortions would be reduced if they are funded by taxpayer dollars? This would make them essentially free for those seeking abortions. From the healthcare bill:
SERVICES
SEC. 1920C. (a) STATE OPTION.—State plan approved under section 1902 may provide for making medical assistance available to an individual described in section 1902(hh) (relating to individuals who meet certain income eligibility standard) during a presumptive eligibility period. In the case of an individual described in section 1902(hh), such medical assistance shall be limited to family planning services and supplies described in 1905(a)(4)(C) and, at the State’s option, medical diagnosis and treatment services that are provided in conjunction with a family planning service in a family planning setting.
Obama’s healthcare bill is probably full of little details like this that the public isn’t aware of. Whether you’re for abortion or not, asking taxpayers to pay for it is immoral. Let’s flip it around on the libs, how about the next time I decide to purchase a 9mm they pay for it with their tax dollars. Man, could you hear the screaming then?
The abortion debate is controversial, and important; but this isn’t about abortion as much as it is about government spending our taxpayer dollars on something we may or may not agree with. Liberals are always screaming about choice; we should have a choice about healthcare funding abortions. I choose no.
Healthcare Taxpayer Funded Abortion
July 21st, 2009 at 11:07 pm
“how about the next time I decide to purchase a 9mm they pay for it with their tax dollars.”
the next time?
besides, abortions do not kill people, guns do.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 am
I consider abortions extra-ordinary health care, and therefore why should taxpayers fund them. Why shouldn’t the person choosing abortion pay for it out of their own pocket. Why can’t we keep this simple?
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:11 am
why would an abortion be extra-ordinary?
they are far more common in the united states than tonsillectomies. there are about the same number as circumcisions every year. it is hardly extra-ordinary.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:12 am
will babies be expected to pay for their own circumcisions?
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:16 am
and … i think we all agree, that circumcision is a necessary medical procedure, and that we are all better off if all men are circumcized.
it limits disease …
and
it keeps women from running screaming from the bedroom and becoming lesbians
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:18 am
First off I want to make a quick statement abortion is murder and I’m not a religious person. I haven’t been to church in two year and I support the legalization of gay marriage, but abortion is a crime. It’s simple away for the Dems to get votes from women and atheist. And you know what if someone needs an abortion government shouldn’t have to pay for it.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:17 am
I am at a loss of words when I think of low this nation has fallen, justifying the mass-murder of babies. A nation can not do that and survive in the long run.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:03 am
Funny you should bring up circumcision lisab.
I was talking to a friend just yesterday whose daughter had a baby not too long ago. She told me that circumcisions are not performed at the time of birth for Medicaid patients. They are scheduled for later and must be paid for in cash.
Separation of church and state?
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:17 am
circumcized babies cry … the big babies … and the nurses do not want to listen to them.
but as jenny mccarthy says, “do you want your son to have a pretty p or not?”
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Abortions do kill people. It just depends if you think the woman has the right to do so. It’s interesting how people throughout America make it sound like the woman isn’t affected emotionally/mentally if she decides to have an abortion. But, that decision has the potential to haunt a woman forever. Maybe pro-life and pro-choice people need to understand that this “personal” decision is just that…personal. Personal is normally associated with sensitive. And, I think it’s an absolute shame that America has become numb to the implications and core of the issue.
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 am
I am completely against taxpayer dollars paying for abortions. I am a prolife individual and you TAKE my taxes and use them to suit what you want. Prolife people do NOT want their tax money used to support the murder of a child. Just like the far left does not like guns used to murder people. I don’t like abortion used as a form of birth control; we all, including unborn babies have the right to life!!
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 pm
lisab, I’m confused, you think it abnormal for me to own more than one 9mm?
I promise my guns won’t hurt a fly-unless I pull the trigger.
July 29th, 2009 at 9:13 am
lisab,
First off abortion does hurt someone… the baby. Abortion is murder whether yo uwant to believe it or not. There is to much evidence that proves the baby does feel pain, that it does respond to lights, noise and touch. It doesn’t matter the the liberals call it a “fetus” it is still a baby. Second, guns do not kill people, people kill people. If we follow your line of reasoning then no one should own a gun. Well thank God our forefathers were smart enough to include that right when writing the constitution. We do not need a government run healthcare system. Our children and our grand children do not need to be burden with the debt it will cause.
August 24th, 2009 at 6:34 am
If guns kill people i guess pregnancies create abortions or maybe using a pencil is the reason for misspelled words. If you read the bill and can decipher it you will find that any procedure you request can and will eventually be taxpayer funded. That just ain’t right.
August 25th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Steve, you know that they agreed on the Capp Amendment 4 weeks ago, and that specifically prevents the public funding of abortions, right? So you know that you’re just wasting hot air about something that isn’t even true, right?
September 17th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
lisab?
“abortions do not kill people, guns do”
that makes NO sense whatsoever i hope you realize this. ABORTIONS KILL PEOPLE? why do you think there is such controversy over it? think about what you say before you type it and look absolutely obtuse.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
connor, I think lisab was being sardonic. Unless she’s done a 180 in the last couple days, she’s about as pro-life as anyone.
September 18th, 2009 at 12:35 am
well yeah … catholic school girl here …
but i am actually against guns, or more precisely bullets ripping through flesh and major organs.