Medicaid Covering Abortion

If liberals want to abort their offspring, why should we taxpayers be footed with the bill?

Read from One News Now:

Tax dollars covering late-term abortions?
Charlie Butts

"An undercover investigation by Operation Rescue shows that Medicaid is paying for abortions, and that practice has been confirmed in at least 15 states.

During the probe, abortion clinics were called by a woman posing as a potential abortion customer. In one call, she tells a counselor at Southwestern Women's Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that she is 26-weeks pregnant and has Medicaid coverage:

Clinic representative: 'Well, actually Medicaid covers the abortion in the state of New Mexico.'

CALLER: 'Ok, how much is it? I'm just curious.'

Clinic representative: 'Well, you would probably be looking at a range of anywhere from $8 [thousand] to $9,000 dollars.'

Federal Medicaid funds are only supposed to cover abortions in cases of rape, incest, and when the life of the mother is in danger, but Operation Rescue president Troy Newman tells OneNewsNow that abortion clinics jump at the chance to use it. That was made evident in this undercover probe, he says, as every undercover caller was told that Medicaid would cover her abortion.

'In another instance, we found out that if a woman was pregnant with a Down syndrome baby -- we're talking about eight, nine months along here -- that your federal government, your tax dollars would pay for that abortion to the tune of $16,000,' he reports.

President Obama has issued an executive order that says federal tax dollars will not be used to fund abortions under ObamaCare. But since taxpayers are already footing the bill through Medicaid, Newman believes people ought to be outraged."