Government-ran health care forces you and me to pay for abortions

By Steve Collier, Colorado Springs

It's true: Obama's health care public options and/or co-ops will subsidize abortions for those who want them... with your taxmoney and mine.

In a story from the Associated Press posted on Yahoo! News, a Democratic Congresswoman from, guess where? ... California ... has inserted an amendment into the House Bill (one of three swarming throughout the House) where "it would allow the public plan to cover abortion but without using federal funds, only dollars from beneficiary premiums. Likewise, private plans in the new insurance exchange could opt to cover abortion, but no federal subsidies would be used to pay for the procedure."

Here's the story.

So one might think with that language, no government funds (i.e.: taxpayer money) would be used in the procedure? Wrong. Read this part: "new federal funds would take the form of subsidies for low- and middle-income people buying coverage through the health insurance exchange. Subsidies would be available for people to buy the public plan or private coverage. Making things more complicated, the federal subsidies would be mixed in with contributions from individuals and employers. Eventually, most Americans could end up getting their coverage through the exchange."

And the reason the abortions would be covered? Because abortions are labeled "medical procedures," versus the term "abortion" at the doctor's office. And staff aides for some senators confirmed it here: "Staff aides confirmed that the public plan _ and private insurance offered in the exchange _ would be allowed to cover abortion, without funding restrictions."

So, with a health care reform bill that is OVER THE TOP socialistic... to add to it, we have taxmoney collected from you and I that would, and probably will, be used to fund abortions for reasons other than rape, incest or the pregnancy is determental to the mother's well being. In this case, your taxmoney and mine will go to abortions that are simply just a casual method of birth control. Sick... absolutely sickening.