Yesterday the Department of Health and Human Services issued its final rule for establishing state health care exchanges under Obamacare.
As expected, the rule provides for taxpayer funding of insurance coverage that includes elective abortion.
Let me back up. I spent some time talking to friends in the House this morning to understand and explain this.
Read backstory here. The Susan B. Anthony List is certainly wasting no time, bless their pro-abort pickin’ hearts. This morning SBAL announced it will immediately begin targeting 3 vulnerable Democrat US senators who yesterday voted to continue funding Planned Parenthood. SBAL is launching radio ads featuring former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson aimed at this […]
UPDATE 4/15, 12:27p: Here were the tallies for yesterday’s votes to defund Planned Parenthood and Obamacare, fyi: House roll call vote on the Black/Roby resolution to defund PP: Passed 241-185-1. 231 Republicans voted FOR the resolution and 7 voted AGAINST the resolution (Bass, Biggert, Bono Mack, Dent, Dold, Frelinghuysen, Hanna). 1 Republican voted present (Amash). […]
UPDATE 4/12, 8:52a: It has also occurred to me that this concession by Obama and the Democrats demonstrates their bond with Planned Parenthood is not impermeable. I’m sure PP was not at all happy about this. But apparently Obama/Democrats felt forced to give Republicans a bone on PP. 4/11, 1:20p: While pro-lifers lament Planned Parenthood wasn’t defunded […]
UPDATE, 7:35a: More good observations in Politico today. One excerpt: Analysts see a slew of factors behind the increasingly narrow votes on Supreme Court nominees. The Senate as a whole has become more polarized, in part because of the rise of partisan media outlets and the Internet. The courts themselves have become a greater focus […]
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Yesterday behind closed doors pro-abort US Sen. Roland Burris (D–IL, who took Obama’s place) offered an amendment in the Senate Armed Services Committee to strike a 14-yr-old ban against privately funded abortions at both domestic and overseas military facilities. The ban has been in place since Congress overturned President Clinton’s 1993 authorization in 1996. Public […]
Now it all comes out. It didn’t take long for Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards to revel in PP’s financial gain from passage of healthcare in a
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.
