AP reporters contradict each other on whether abortion is in Obamacare
Just 3 days ago Associated Press reporter Charles Babington, wrote in a “fact check” piece it is “not yet clear” whether abortion would be subsidized by taxpayers in the nationalized healthcare plan:
CLAIM: Health care revisions would lead to government-funded abortions….
THE FACTS: The proposed bills would not undo the Hyde Amendment, which bars paying for abortions through Medicaid, the government insurance program for the poor. But a health care overhaul could create a government-run insurance program, or insurance “exchanges,” that would not involve Medicaid and whose abortion guidelines are not yet clear…. Congressional action this fall will determine whether such language is in the final bill.
Doug Johnson of National Right to Life Committee, explained to LifeNews.com the AP fact checker needs a fact checker. (And this isn’t the first time Babington has been called out for liberalized reporting.)
So today AP reporter Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar unequivocally wrote abortion’s in there:
Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal policy on the divisive issue….
A law called the Hyde amendment applies the restrictions to Medicaid, forcing states that cover abortion for low-income women to do so with their own money. Separate laws apply the restrictions to the federal employee health plan and military and other programs.
But the health overhaul would create a stream of federal funding not covered by the restrictions.
The AP needs to learn to communicate internally better, scary since it’s in the business of communication.
[HT: LifeNews.com]
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.
Obama would never try to pass a bill to fund abortion. He’s got too much heart (gag, of course I am kidding).
Well, from what I can determine, they’re at least both recognizing that the Hyde Amendment applies to Medicaid which this health plan would not be. It’s really just fancy wording on the part of Babington. Alonso-Zaldivar seems to be more forthright about the reality of the situation.
Just requires a little bit of reading between the lines. :)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I love watching them dance the doubletalk cha-cha as they try to appease the far lefties who are crying out DEMANDING abortion be covered while still not turning everyone else off who will REFUSE to pay for abortions with their hard-earned tax dollars.
Pro-abort won’t b happy until abortion is “accepted” as a “treatment option” for the parasitic infection commonly referred to as pregnancy.
Those of us who have been saying the plan will result in mandatory genetic screening of the pre-born and mandatory death sentence for babies deemed defective by the Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research are right to fear this.
This is a belief held by the science czar and Dr. Emanuel, a member of the FCCER.
We are not being alarmist. We are simply adding 2 plus 2 and coming up with 4.