President Obama's universal healthcare plan may move him one step closer to his goal of allowing unlimited access to abortion-on-demand.
White House budget director Peter Orszag was asked by host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday if he would rule out including taxpayer funding of abortions in the president's government-run healthcare plan.
Orszag: "Uh, I, I think that that will wind up being part of the debate. I'm not prepared to say explicitly that right now. It's obviously a controversial issue, and it's one of the questions that is playing out in this debate."
Wallace: "So you're not prepared to rule [it] out."
Orszag: "I'm not prepared to rule it out."
Douglas Johnson of National Right to Life says if the bill the White House is backing were enacted in its current form, it would result in the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.
"These bills that President Obama is pushing would result in federally funded abortion, but they would also result in federally mandated coverage of abortion by nearly all health Douglas Johnson (NRLC)plans -- not only the government plan, but also private health plans. They would require that local health networks recruit abortionists and set up abortion clinics. They would nullify many state abortion laws," he notes. "The pro-abortion groups understand these effects very well, and they are fighting amendments that we are supporting to clean up these bills."
During a 2007 campaign speech to Planned Parenthood, Barack Obama said the first thing he would do as president "is sign the Freedom of Choice Act" -- a bill that would eliminate all state and federal restrictions on abortion.
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Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: July 21, 2009
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