Abortion and Your Mandated Health Care

One of our contributors drives an automobile with a pro-life message bumper sticker. Yesterday, while in a parking lot, some one left the following message on a note under his windshield wiper: "God gives life @the time of birth. The subject of abortion or not is a matter between a woman and her dr."

This obviously reflects the mentality of Commissar Barack Hussein Obama and Associates Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as they get ready to force nationalized health care on you. With that said, they also want to provide abortion on demand for all as part of the revamp.

Below is what we hear from our friends at right to life. If you are concerned about this issue, it's one more reason to let your senator, in our case here in Nebraska E. Benjamin Nelson, know what you think.

"WASHINGTON (July 8, 2009) – The Obama White House and Democratic congressional leaders are pushing hard for votes in late July on massive "health care reform" bills that contain provisions that would vastly expand access to abortion on demand, override state abortion laws, and establish federal funding of abortion.

Leading pro-abortion advocacy groups, including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), NARAL, the National Abortion Federation, and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, have made statements in recent days admitting that they hope to mandate "access"
to abortion for "all women" through provisions of national health care restructuring legislation.

So far, two massive health care bills have been unveiled, one in the Senate and one in the House. The full House is expected to vote on its version of the bill at the end of July. Senate floor action could occur shortly thereafter.

"These two bills pose one of the greatest threats to pro-life policies since the Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion in 1973," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. "These bills contain multiple provisions that would result in federally mandated insurance coverage of abortion on demand, with massive federal subsidies, as well as mandated creation of many new abortion clinics and the nullification of at least some state limitations on abortion."

"The pro-abortion movement sees federal 'health care reform'
legislation as a golden opportunity to force-feed abortion into every nook and cranny of the health-care delivery system," Johnson said.
"Their goal, as they sometimes put it, is to 'mainstream' abortion. If Obama and his allies succeed, the result will be a very large increase in the number of abortions performed in America."

The imposition of sweeping pro-abortion mandates as part of “health care reform” is currently the top priority of many pro-abortion organizations. These organizations are pushing for the abortion mandates both in public statements and in less visible lobbying efforts. In April, the president of PPFA said that her organization intends to use the health care legislation as a "platform" to guarantee access to abortion to "all women."' Likewise, the National Abortion Federation, an association of abortion providers, said, "NAF supports health care reform as a way to increase access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion care, for all women."