Obama and his Department of Health and Human Services are in full spin mode trying to wriggle their way out of accusations of federal funding for abortion. If you recall, when the "Let Grandma Die" healthcare reform bill was signed in March, Obama, in his usual stealth-like manner, signed an executive order for the public's benefit, banning the federal funding of abortion. Now, that sounds all well and good, except for one little problem: executive orders CANNOT trump statutory law.
As a reader to this blog: you have two choices. You can trust the word of a pro-life organization which is looking out for the interests of the unborn and has no reason to vilify the president. Your other option is to trust the word of a president so committed to the destruction of life that he was willing to support infanticide, in other words, a man with a completely seared conscience.
I report; you decide if you can trust Obama or anyone else in his administration to tell us the truth about a cause so dear to them as killing defenseless babies.
That being said, it is interesting to note that Life News is now reporting that a second state will be funding abortions. First, we hear about Pennsylvania; now, we can add New Mexico to that list.
Read from Life News:
Obama Admin Approves Second Set of Abortion Funding Under Health Care Law
by Steven Ertelt
"The day after revelations that the Obama administration allowed federal taxpayer funding of abortions under the new national health care law that was supposed to prevent it, new information shows President Barack Obama has authorized abortion funding in a second state.
The first abortion funding had the Obama administration approve a Pennsylvania plan calling for the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions for virtually any reason through a new high risk insurance program created by the national health care law.
Now, the National Right to Life Committee, which uncovered the first case of abortion funding, has dug up a second set -- in New Mexico.
NRLC legislative director Douglas Johnson informed LifeNews.com of the first set and spoke with Kathryn Lopez of National Review about the abortion funding in the western state.
He said New Mexico state officials have put together a new $37 million high-risk pool that will begin enrolling members on July 1 and they will begin receiving benefits August 1 -- including federal funding for elective abortions according to the state insurance department's website. After the insured pays the deductible, taxpayer dollars from the federal government cover the remaining 80 percent.
'HHS has been hiding most of these high-risk plans, including the plan that HHS will administer directly in 21 states. Of the four state plans we've managed to ferret out, two provided coverage of essentially all abortions — Pennsylvania and New Mexico,' Johnson told National Review.
'This is part of a pattern, under this administration, of making "soft" rhetorical statements on abortion policy, but consistently promoting and expanding abortion through low-visibility administrative decisions. The administration's heavy funding of groups pushing a proposed new pro-abortion constitution in Kenya is another example,' Johnson added.
House minority leader John Boehner also sent a statement to National Review about the New Mexico funding.
'In just the past 24 hours, we've learned of two states in which the new federal high-risk insurance programs created under Obamacare and approved by the Obama administration will use federal funds to pay for abortion, despite promises by the White House and Democratic leaders that no such funding would occur under Obamacare,' he said.
'These developments provide stark confirmation that President Obama's executive order last spring was little more than a political ploy to ensure passage of Obamacare by circumventing the will of the American people, who are clearly opposed to taxpayer-funded abortion,' the Republican leader added.
Lopez, of National Review, opined on the situation and urged voters to hold accountable in November those lawmakers who voted for the pro-abortion health care plan.
'The Obama administration lied, and members of Congress who claim to be pro-life went along with the sham. There should, indeed, be electoral consequences,' she said."
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Yeah, why would radical anti-choice advocates lie?
LMAO
Better question: when WOULDN'T they lie?
Yeah, why wouldn't commieobama lie about abortion funding? He lies about most everything else. And why can't a supposedly rational adult women make the "choice" to use some sort of protection if she don't want a baby? Because in the eyes of a democrat, you do what feels good first and then you can get bailed out by the taxpayer after you sober up and decide it was a mistake!!! Why would a self proclaimed christian such as yourself advocate abortion? Because just like commieobama and every other idiot liberal, christianity is just a word you use to make yourself look better. Abortion is MURDER any way you slice it.
You're free to believe as you wish, Justa Dumbass, as am I. I believe that a fetus is not a child. It MAY become a child, once bor, but not until then. I believe that girls who are molested by their fathers or brothers, or women who are raped, aren't in need of "sobering up and deciding it was a mistake", as you so quaintly term it.
Is that because you need to get a woman good and drunk before they'll sleep with you?
If abortion -- especially under those kinds of circumstances -- is a sin, then I'm perfectly content to let that be a discussion item between the woman and her God.
Funny how you Religious Rightwingnuts are all for individual responsibility and "salvation" unless somebody else does something YOU disapprove of. THEN, you want to make judgments for everybody else!
Hypocritical frauds, the lot fo you!
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