Wednesday, July 14, 2010

"We knew the rhetoric was phony from the start, from assurances from the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the President's useless Executive Order," declared Barbara L. Lyons, Executive Director of Wisconsin Right to Life.  "President Obama will include funding of abortion and abortion coverage whenever and wherever possible in federal government programs."

The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new "high-risk" insurance program under a provision of Obamacare and has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of Governor Edward Rendell (D) under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.  The high-risk pool is one of the news programs created by the sweeping federal health care bill signed into law on March 23.

"The President worked hard to ensure that his signature health care law would allow subsidies for abortion coverage and federal funding of abortion," stated Lyons.  "Now his Administration is working behind the scenes to expand abortion using administrative decisions which he hopes will escape public notice.  This is the first but will not be the last of Obama's programs which will subsidize abortions."