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Press Release
Obama Health Care
Includes Payment For Abortion
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 31, 2008
The following statement can
be attributed to Nevada LIFE President Don Nelson
Barack Obama’s
health care plan will include funding of “reproductive
services,” a euphemism that includes abortion.
In
a speech and comments to Planned Parenthood in January
2007, Obama said, “…we’re going to set up a public
plan that all persons and all women can access if they
don’t have health insurance. It’ll be a plan that will
provide all essential services, including reproductive
services…”
Obama’s plan will
require private insurers to provide abortion services too.
Obama told the same audience, “we also subsidize those
who prefer to stay in the private insurance market except
that insurers are going to have to abide by the same rules
in terms of providing comprehensive care, including
reproductive care... So that’s going to be absolutely
vital.”
These provisions will increase
the number of abortions in America because it will
eliminate the Hyde Amendment which has prohibited taxpayer
funding of abortion for over 30 years.
NARAL Pro-Choice America says that the Hyde Amendment
"forces about half the women who would otherwise have
abortions to carry unintended pregnancies to term and bear
children against their wishes instead." There are 1.2
million abortions every year.
Barack Obama’s abortion policies will increase abortion
and turn back 20 years of decreases in the numbers of
abortion. Obama opposes the partial birth abortion ban;
parental involvement, informed consent, waiting periods
and taxpayer funding bans. All of these measures are
supported by vast majorities of Americans, including many
who support abortion.
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