Obamacare and Abortion: Forcing Individuals to Fund Elective Abortion Coverage

Because of legislative loopholes and onerous mandates, Obamacare will entangle taxpayer funds in abortion coverage offered on state exchanges and could force many Americans to unwittingly pay an abortion surcharge with private dollars. Additional taxpayer fund­ing and mandates on insurers could also provide increased funding and coverage for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. To truly protect taxpayers, individuals, and families from subsidizing health plans that include coverage of abortion, Obamacare must be repealed in its entirety. Americans deserve health care reform that allows individuals and families to choose health care that meets their needs without violating their beliefs or subsidizing life-ending drugs and procedures.

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Obamacare and Abortion: Forcing Individuals to Fund Elective Abortion Coverage

Q&A: Why Pro-Lifer's Oppose the Health Care Law

Read our overview on the ruling here. Read comments on the ruling from around the nation here

WASHINGTON (BP) -- When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Obama's health care law, it left untouched sections of the law that have concerned members of the pro-life and religious liberty communities for months.


Although those sections often have been overshadowed by debates over the individual mandate, pro-life and religious liberty groups were raising their concerns even before the law passed Congress in 2010.

Following are questions, and answers, about their concerns:

-- Why do pro-life and religious liberty groups oppose the law?  MORE

ACTION ALERT: Bill Requiring Mandatory Insurance for Abortion Advances in the Legislature.

by John Geis | February 24, 2012 

The Washington State Legislature (WSL) is moving a bill that forces all individuals to purchase and all businesses sell abortion insurance coverage on a maternity plan. This is clearly an attempt to impose a state abortion mandate at the hands and under the direct bidding of Planned Parenthood and NARAL.

The Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2330 passed from the House floor with 52 yes votes and 46 no votes, where three democrats voted against it. It then passed through several Senate hurdles to end up in the Ways and Means committee for a public hearing yesterday, where our testimony was excellent. The bill awaits an Executive Session in that committee on Monday, Feb 27th at 1:30pm or 3:30pm.  MORE

Obamacare Expects Faith-based groups to Violate Consciences

 (CNS News) 
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that American women “deserve” to have their employers buy them health insurance plans that cover sterlizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortions, with no fees or co-pay, even if the employer is a Catholic or Catholic organization that adheres to the church teaching that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortifacients are morally wrong and that Catholics cannot be involved in them.
“I understand that there have been objections and that some people disagree with us and we are going to work with institutions that have concerns here,” Carney told reporters. “But I think it’s important to note here that we believe these services are important and that American women deserve to have access to that kind of insurance coverage regardless of where they work.”

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Render Unto Caesar? On Paying Taxes After Obamacare (Mohler). "A significant number of Christians are now wondering about the moral implications of the Obama health care overhaul. While any number of moral questions will demand attention, the question of abortion stands at the center of concern. And with the question of abortion comes the question of taxes..."

Hope in Discouraging Times (Randy Alcorn) "Several people have already asked about my response to the passage of the Health Care Reform Bill and its inclusion of abortion. Yes, I am deeply concerned about its effect on unborn children. However, even though this bill has passed, the righteous cause of the unborn is not over. The indictment against people who shed innocent blood is not over. The command of God is not over: “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the rights of the poor and needy”

The Senate's Abortion Compromise

Q & A: The Senate’s Abortion Compromise (Baptist Press) "The Senate is on the verge of passing a health care bill that includes a compromise on federal funding of abortion. Pro-life groups and pro-choice groups, though, are not happy with the compromise language, promoted by Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska. Following are a few common questions, with answers, about the compromise..."

Excellent Reads

Boondoggle or Worse? The Houses Health Care Reform Bill (Chuck Colson) 

The Long-term Effect of Spiritual Activity Among Children & Teens (Barna Research)

If He Talks and Behaves Like a Terrorist (Baptist Press)

Tax Payer Funded Abortion

Update on the tax-payer funded abortion issue in the Healthcare debate: A website has been set up to keep up to date information on the facts and myths of the proposed funding of abortion services in the healthcare reform discussion. This is a great way to stay informed and ready to respond.

Update on Tax Payer funded abortion issue

Update on the tax-payer funded abortion issue in the Healthcare debate.

Update on the tax-payer funded abortion issue in the Healthcare debate: A website has been set up to keep up to date information on the facts and myths of the proposed funding of abortion services in the healthcare reform discussion. This is a great way to stay informed and ready to respond.

Health Care Reform, is it ok to Force Abortion

ChristsChurch 7/24/2009 9:40:42 PM
Healthcare Reform: Is it right to force taxpayers to fund abortions?

As the details of the current controvesial “health care reform” bill continues to unfold, we are learning that it contains the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade (read the story here and here. ) Apparently, taxpayers will be forced without exceptions to fund abortions. This is quite a stunner and not going to sit very well with most Americans (so far, polls are showing that half of all Americans disapprove of President Obama’s handling of this reform). It’s one thing to make abortion legal and accessible (as it is today) and quite another thing to mandate its support.

Health Care Reform, Is it Okay to Force Abortion?

(Posted 7/25/09 on http://www.ccfw.org/)

Healthcare Reform: Is it right to force taxpayers to fund abortions?

As the details of the current controvesial “health care reform” bill continues to unfold, we are learning that it contains the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade (read the story here and here. ) Apparently, taxpayers will be forced without exceptions to fund abortions. This is quite a stunner and not going to sit very well with most Americans (so far, polls are showing that half of all Americans disapprove of President Obama’s handling of this reform). It’s one thing to make abortion legal and accessible (as it is today) and quite another thing to mandate its support.

The bills currently offered are being pushed by President Obama and would result in federally mandated coverage of abortion by nearly all health plans, abortifacient drugs, federally mandated recruitment of abortionists by local health networks, and nullification of many state abortion laws. It is feared that once abortion is established as a federal “essential benefit”, it will require “access” to and massive subsidization of elective abortion, which will require many issuers to establish and staff new abortion-providing sites. It may also nullify state “access” laws (such as waiting periods and parental notification requirements) and undermines healthcare workers’ conscience rights.

We can debate the $1 trillion dollar price-tag and whether or not it would suffocate everyone from small business owners to upper-income taxpayers with its incalculable new taxes. We could also debate the inevitability of rationed care and the limits on end-of-life care. All these have their merits for debate and discussion, but forcing taxpayers to fund abortion is unconscionable.
God is the author of life from conception (Psalm 139:13-16) and each person is created “in the image of God” (Genesis 1:27). This places a high value upon each individual life conceived and leaves the right to take that life away in the hands of the Creator and Designer. God has forbidden the taking of innocent life (Exodus 20:13) except in the cases of self-defense (Exodus 22:2-3), manslaughter (Exodus 20:12-13), a just war (Ecclesiastes 3:8) or in the government execution of criminals convicted of a capital crime (Romans 13:4).

Since life is precious in the eyes of God (we are “fearfully and wonderfully made”) and therefore sacred, we are forbidden by God to end life by homicide (Genesis 9:6) or suicide (I Corinthians 6:19-20) or feticide (abortion – Exodus 22:21-25) or euthanasia (2 Samuel 1:2-16). And though the government has unfortunately given the right to end a life inside the womb (from conception to full-term) and in some states outside the womb (for qualitative end of life decisions), it is unthinkable that anyone who opposes abortion would then be forced to fund such actions against their will.

Lord willing, these measures will be removed from any final form of healthcare reform for the sake of God’s special creation and the future of our country.