Hypercharged
UPDATE, 7/28, 7:20a: Doug Johnson of National Right to Life has corroborated my concern about taxpayer funding of federal employees’ abortions at CQ Politics.
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CQ Politics’ Jonathan Allen was responding to my post last night, “Breaking news: Legislation funding DC abortions includes abortion funding for 8 million federal employees.”
Allen continued…
But the long-standing law – “No funds appropriated by this act shall be available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefits program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions” – has always been a House provision….
Typically in recent years – as is the case this year – the Senate bill has been silent on the matter and the House provision has been included in the final law.
I’m not clear on why Allen went out of his way to mock the pro-life community as hypersensitive – as if there were no reason to be, even if that were true in this case.
Nevertheless, Allen got it backwards. A Senate committee led by rabid pro-abort Dick Durbin passed a funding bill that deleted a provision banning taxpayer funded abortion from the federal employees health care plan – thereby proposing a change in current law to permit it.
And Allen’s defense is the Senate always tries to fund the killing of federal employees’ babies, but not to worry because the House stops it?
Additionally don’t forget we had a stopgap Republican president the last 8 years who would have vetoed the current Senate version.
The fact is, this year of all years it would be stupid to dull our senses to a repetitive Senate maneuver to gut a law prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortions for 8 million federal employees.
After all, Obama heralds the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program as a model for healthcare.
Strangely, Allen closed his piece corroborating my concern:
Still, an aide to a conservative senator said that fears about the larger health care overhaul providing for taxpayer-funded abortions, either through subsidized health insurance for individuals or coverage by a government-backed plan, are likely to bring heat on the Senate’s omission of FEHBP ban.
“It won’t come to senate floor without a fight,” the aide said. “Taxpayers don’t want to pay for abortions for federal employees.”
My only conclusion is Allen wrote a simple hit piece. But I have “hypercharged reaction[s]” to things.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
love the “shadowy” picture of you Jill, like your in a bar or plotting something nefarious…
he does have something right though, we aren’t concerned about footing the bill for “terminated pregnancies”, we just don’t want to pay for killing unborn American babies.
Let’s at least acknowledge what it is here that we are doing with American’s money.
Looking for a throw-down, aren’t ya Jill?
Jill,
Just keep tellin’ them the truth.
They WILL be set them free eventually, but the truth will probably make them angry first.
That is one inidication that it is the truth.
yor bro ken
Once The O-Bots get abortion funding mandated, it will become the mandated “cost effective treatment option” for pregnancy. After all, it costs less to kill a pre-born than to let it be born.
It will start first with mandatory genetic screening. Once people get used to this invasion, it will be expanded to mandatory termination of downs syndrome babies (9 out of 10 are already terminated when mother’s find out). Little by little, others will be added to the list in the name of controlling health care costs. And when that doesn’t work, people will have to apply for a permit to have a child.
Not that far fetched given who Our Dear Leader has appointed to various positions. They have proposed these very plans in numerous writings dating back to the late ’70’s.
Even Dash-hole wrote a book saying the elderly should be denied treatment and told to go home and die because they are not economical to repair.
Oregon already does just that.
So it is not that far to go for Our Dear Leader to do this.
That is why there must never be allowed to pass any tax dollar funding of abortion at any level.
Abortion is not a treatment for an illness.
I know women that knew if they did not abort that cancer treatment might be too late to save them. They still chose life for their babies even though it ended up costing their own life. Liberals would say these women made the wrong choice. But in reality they made the only choice that is moral and right.
“Abortion is not a treatment for an illness. ”
Amen.