Catholic League: For Religious and Civil Rights
OBAMA DENIES HEALTH PLAN COVERS ABORTION
September 10, 2009Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on President Obama’s speech last night on health care reform:
Yesterday, I said the president would not mention abortion in his speech. I was wrong about that. But I was right to say, “The rational thing to do would be to drop abortion from the health care bills and support conscience rights for health care workers.” Obama did nothing of the sort. Indeed, his one sentence denial that his health care proposals would result in federal funding of abortion is simply not true.
Even the New York Times, which issued a strong editorial endorsing his speech, said in a news analysis that his claim that there is no federal funding for abortion “is not so clear-cut.” In practice, the Times said, “the public and private money would all go into the same pot, and the source of money for any single procedure is largely a technicality.”
More pointedly, if there is no federal funding for abortion in these plans, then why have there been several attempts to bar such funding? Tell that to Rep. Bart Stupak, Rep. Joe Pitts, Rep. Eric Cantor, Rep. Sam Johnson, Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Mike Enzi. Why would they seek to ban something that doesn’t exist? Just as revealing, why did Obama’s friends defeat every one of these amendments?
President Obama is playing a shell game. He defended the public option plan last night, and under that plan, the person in charge of deciding whether abortion coverage will be mandated is his Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius. This is the same woman who befriended George Tiller, the infamous abortionist who specialized in killing babies 80-percent born. Is there anyone who doubts what her decision will be? If President Bush appointed a secretary of education who was pro-school vouchers, and an education plan allowed the secretary to decide whether to fund them, would anyone conclude that federal dollars for vouchers were not in the plan?
Being wrong is one thing. Being deceitful is quite another.
The fact is, our country is so far past broke it is sickening to anyone with even the slightest clue of finances. Yet our president wants to spend more. Where is this extra going to come from? Who pays these bills? That's right -- you, via your taxes.
So, the government spends more, the government taxes more. Oh, yes. Only the rich will be taxed, right? And you believe that?
In his inaugural ceremony, Obama played a video of JFK's inaugural ceremony, wherein he stated "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
Yet, Obama has the government doing for private business, and the government doing for private citizens, NOT the other way around.
These will come back to haunt him if US citizens have any backbone left at all.
Posted by: A Real Guy | September 10, 2009 at 05:18 PM