This Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to consider legislation to
repeal Obamacare and its "take over the world" approach to health care. Of particular interest to those with pro-life persuasions are the findings (assertions of fact made in the bill) below (emphases added).
Finding #7: While President Obama promised that nothing in the law would fund elective
abortion, the law expands the role of the Federal Government in funding and
facilitating abortion and plans that cover abortion. The law appropriates
billions of dollars in new funding without explicitly prohibiting the use of
these funds for abortion, and it provides Federal subsidies for health plans
covering elective abortions. Moreover, the law effectively forces millions of
individuals to personally pay a separate abortion premium in violation of their
sincerely held religious, ethical, or moral beliefs.
Finding #8: Until enactment of the law, the Federal Government has not sought to impose
specific coverage or care requirements that infringe on the rights of
conscience of insurers, purchasers of insurance, plan sponsors, beneficiaries,
and other stakeholders, such as individual or institutional health care
providers. The law creates a new nationwide requirement for health plans to
cover ‘‘essential health benefits’’ and ‘‘preventive services’’, but does not
allow stakeholders to opt out of covering items or services to which they have
a religious or moral objection, in violation of the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act (Public Law 103–141). By creating new barriers to health insurance
and causing the loss of existing insurance arrangements, these inflexible
mandates jeopardize the ability of institutions and individuals to exercise
their rights of conscience and their ability to freely participate in the
health insurance and health care marketplace.
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